Hello,
> validate the log message [...] start-commit [...]
> [...]
> if the client is using an older version (like 1.7) the commit message
> obtained
> using svnlook is always empty durng the start-commit. In this case the commit
> message is available only during pre-commit.
Yes, and this is expected, documented [1] and will not change. Quoting:
[[[
Note: Subversion does not require that commit transaction properties (such as
the revision log message) be attached to the transaction as part of its
initialization. As such, some clients will still not provide that information
to the server until after the start-commit hook has been invoked. Here is a
list of such clients we are aware of:
Pre-1.8 clients communicating via HTTP
Clients communicating via HTTP when mod_dav_svn's "SVNAdvertiseV2Protocol"
option has been set to "off"
Administrators should consider modularizing the tests that their hooks perform
on transaction properties, invoke those tests from both the start-commit and
pre-commit hook scripts."
]]]
You will need to run the same hook again as pre-commit.
[1] https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#hooks-start-commit
Andreas
