On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Kylo Ginsberg <k...@kylo.net> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm running 1.6.9 on Fedora 12. With this post-commit script: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> REPOS="$1" >> REV="$2" >> $REPOS/hooks/delay.sh & >> >> and delay.sh is just: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> sleep 5 >> >> This causes commits to delay 5 seconds before completing at the >> client. Running post-commit directly from the command-line it returns >> immediately, so it is apparently something about how svn/apr invokes >> the hook. >> >> The above is a simplification; what I am really trying to do is put >> sync's to a proxy server in the background so that large commits >> aren't blocked while we sync to proxy servers across a WAN. >> >> I assume this is not expected behavior. In fact the svnbook carefully >> describes putting proxy syncs in the background, so I believe I'm >> following best practices. > > I think you have to redirect stdout and stderr to a file (or to > /dev/null if you wish). Something like: > > $REPOS/hooks/delay.sh 2>&1 >logfile & > > should do the trick. > > I do this with my post-commit hook as well (for sending out commit > emails, don't want that to delay the commit), and it works perfectly. > > Cheers, > -- > Johan >
Perfect. Thanks! Kylo
