Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Torsten Krah > <tk...@fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote: > >> If commit can not fail - for which ever reason - why the doc does state that >> the hook does only run if the commit is actual successful? >> So it is possible to fail or not? > > Commits can fail. A common reason would be that a file included in > the commit was not at the HEAD revision in your working copy. I > believe these sort of checks do not happen until after the pre-commit > hook is called.
Out-of-date checks happen twice. They happen first at an early stage during the commit as this allows us to reject the commit before the user has spent a lot of time uploading content. However these early out-of-date checks could themselves be out-of-date by the time we come to finalise the commit (another commit could have completed). So the out-of-date checks get repeated once Subversion has taken the commit lock, and this second check is after the pre-commit hook has run. -- Philip
