SVN has a pristine copy of the checked-out files along with the working copy. When you issue a commit, SVN compares the pristine and the local files and _only_ sends the diffs. So the presence of any file doesn't automatically mean that it will be visible in the commit _unless_ it changes every time.
Hope this helps. Cheers, Jim On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Tech Geek wrote: > >You want to enforce that the developer cannot commit unless they have this > >project.xml in >their working copy, though it will never be sent to the > >repository. > That's not true. The project.xml (or whatever file that particular file is) > should also be a part of commit. > > I will again repeat my question again since there is so much confusion: > > Can we have a pre-commit (preferred) or post-commit server hook that can > check for the presence of a particular file (say project.xml) when the users > send their working copy to the server to commit? If the file is present > accept the commit (along with that file) else reject the commit. > > I would prefer not to implement this on client side. > > I never thought this would be so complicated.
