Question

We use subversion as a source control solution; however couple of my team mates aren’t very faithful when it comes to provide a comment while checking in files.

I would like to put a couple of validation like…

A. A comment is mandatory with at least a specified number of characters.
B. Few words must be present in the checking in comment.
C. spaces in file names are rejected.

Is there a way to do so? I tried searching for a solution but it seems that isn’t going that well…

Answer 1

You can employ a pre-commit hook to check if a comment comes with the commit and which files are altered or added.

A pre-commit hook script obtains the repository that’s to be changed and a transaction identifier. Both these can be used with svnlook:

svnlook log /path/to/repo --transaction <txid>

This will echo the commit message.