On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Lorenz <loren...@yahoo.com> wrote: > David Aldrich wrote: >>Please can anyone point me to an example of a svn pre-commit hook that >>prevents commits >>to files that are members of an externals definition? >> >>We want to allow such files to be committed only from within the external >>directory, i.e. where >>they originate from. > > As long as the externals are pointing to the same repository it should > be possible to examine the transaction and determine if any of the > changed paths is related to an external definition (external > properties can be extracted from the transaction too).
Really? From my testing, it seemed that SVN doesn't descend into externals during a commit, regardless of whether the external points to the same or a different repository. Have you seen different behaviour? Cheers, Daniel B.
