Hi David,
I get an error like this:
svn: 'pre-commit' hook failed with error output:
/svn/repo/hooks/commit-access-control.pl: error in loading configuration
file `/svn/repo/hooks/commit-access-control.cfg':
Line 308 in file /svn/repo/hooks/commit-access-control.cfg is mal-formed:
This has happened 3-4 times when various people have updated the file.
It is always a result of using a '.' in a user's name.
I don't know perl very well and assumed it has to do with the '.' being
interpreted as a regex character instead of a literal '.'
I wasn't aware that svnperms.py is a replacement script. I'll take a
look and see if I can replace.
Thanks!
~Steven
David Weintraub wrote:
What type of "error" are you getting? Is the script running, but not
giving you the results you expect (i.e., it rejects a commit that it
should accept or visa versa), or is the script erroring out with a
message?
I'm looking at the code, and I really don't see an issue with periods
in the name since user names are white space separated. However, it
could be due to an error in the module "Config::IniFiles".
Have you tried running the script by hand to see what you get? Have
you tried adding a few debug lines in the script to see why the user
ID isn't what you expect?
This hook script has been replaced by the "svnperms.py" script, a
Python script. Have you tried that script.
If you prefer a Perl script, you're also welcome to try my
configuration script which I wrote to specifically replace the
commit-access-control.pl script. You can get that here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/433257/hooks.zip.
This does work with periods in the user names.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Steven Hansen <run...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to find some documentation describing "valid" syntax for the
commit-access-control.cfg
file. I've been bitten in the past by using something like:
[SVN - config modification permissions]
match = ^SVN
access = read-write
users = first.lastname
Having a '.' in the username causes errors.
Also, does anyone know why does this cause errors? If possible I'd like to
include usernames that
include the '.'
Thanks,
Steven
