On Apr 23, 2013, at 15:56, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote on Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:45:49 -0500: >> 3. If you want the actual source code in the repository to contain >> these comments, then you're talking about several scripts: one that >> the developers must invoke in place of "svn commit" to commit their >> work, which transforms their files in the ways you desire before >> committing them, and another that runs as a pre-commit hook and >> verifies that the incoming commit conforms to these requirements (and >> rejects the commit if not). > > Or, more simply, developers run 'commit' normally and a post-commit hook > appends the blame-comments.
Appends the blame-comments to what? Certainly not to the file in the repository because by post-commit time the commit is already finalized. And you wouldn't want to modify the transaction in the pre-commit hook because that would screw up working copies. Are you suggesting the server should make a second commit after every commit to add the blame-comments? That would totally mess up normal use of "svn blame", among the other usual problems.
