Setting up Post-Hooks for Subversion

The publicly available subversion book at svnbook.red-bean.com is both concise and comprehensive. It can help you deftly steer a subversion server in any way your inner administrator hankers to go.

I found subversion helpful in tracking versions. I found it less useful in quick commit-to-staging server process. As some bountiful moments in freenet #svn IRC led me to discover, using post-hook scripts is the way to go.

Check this info box on tigris.subversion.org, leading to this part of ch 5 of the svn book on using hooks to automate and extend commands. There are also some helpful examples of scripts that can be brought to bear on a project.

The code is built thus and left in the hook directory sans .tmpl extension:

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

# commit-email.pl "$REPOS" "$REV" commit-watchers@example.org
# log-commit.py --repository "$REPOS" --revision "$REV"

svn update /home/[username]/django/projects/mysite.com/projectdir >> /var/log/vhosts/svn-django-errorlog

Be sure to set your post-commit file to executable

chmod +x post-commit