Re: How to automatically update files on alioth from svn
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:30:04PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> I have written a small post-commit hook for a somewhat different usage
> (the original problem was versionning the hooks themselves).
I've been doing this for quite a while with a variety of SVN repos, with
very different users and content. Here are a few things I've run into:
- Ensure the correct locale setting is used, otherwise you'll run into
trouble with non-ASCII filenames. For example, do "export LANG=en_US" if
en_US defines the correct character set to use (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1,
whatever...) For optimal results, svnserve should run with the same setting
as the checkout script. ;-)
- Use the --non-interactive switch for "svn up".
- Use "svn cleanup" if there is trouble during the "svn up". A situation
where this is necessary Should Not Happen (tm), but it surely has for me.
:-/
- Do a fresh checkout if the destination dir does not contain a .svn
subdirectory. (Of course you could do this manually, but with lots of repos
it's very nice...)
- Consider putting a line "use-commit-times = yes" into the
~/.subversion/config of the user that does the "svn up". That way,
checked-out files' timestamps will be those of their last change, not the
time of the checkout. I like to use this for websites maintained in SVN -
it allows you e.g. to create appropriate "page last changed on .."
messages.
BTW, it's not necessary to add locking to the script, AFAIK runs of the
postcommit script will be serialized by SVN (at least for my libdb repos,
dunno about FSFS!).
Cheers,
Richard
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