[Product-Developers] Re: Proposal: adding a pre-commit hook in the collective

[Dorneles Treméa]

Hey Héctor,

> according to the SVN book (compiled from Revision 1337) there is a 
> easier way to do this:
> 
> page 132:
> 
> Automatic Property Setting
> 
> [...]
> 
> Subversion also provides the auto-props feature, which allows you to 
> create mappings of filename patterns to property names and values. These 
> mappings are made in your runtime configuration area. They again affect 
> adds and imports, and not only can override any default MIME type 
> decision made by Subversion during those operations, they can also set 
> additional Subversion or custom properties, too. For example, you might 
> create a mapping that says that any time you add JPEG files—ones that 
> match the pattern *.jpg—Subversion should automatically set the 
> svn:mime-type property on those files to image/jpeg. Or perhaps any 
> files that match *.cpp should have svn:eol-style set to native, and 
> svn:keywords set to Id. Auto-prop support is perhaps the handiest 
> property related tool in the Subversion toolbox. See the section called 
> “Config” for more about configuring that support.
> 
> [end of quotation]
> 
> you can see the page 120 for further info.

this only works for newly added files (svn add or svn import) and
has no effect when doing a checkout.

BTW, I'm also a +1 for enabling the hook.

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Dorneles Treméa
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