Comments on: Forcing SVN Comments with TortoiseSVN

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:49:08 +0000

@cap, I have not tried this before but maybe someone else here has? you should look into the svn hooks docs.

By: cap

cap — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:48:25 +0000

Thanks Anuj,
But if I want to force comment on specific folder by pre-commit hook (not all folder in repository on server), how to do it? Thanks

By: Pete Montgomery

Pete Montgomery — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:36:17 +0000

Hi, this property in fact doesn’t need to be set recursively. Thanks.

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:41:45 +0000

This solution is only for your local client. If you want to do a server-side, you would have to do a pre-commit hook as explained in my other post. VisualSVN server has an option to define hooks, if I am not mistaken.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:29:18 +0000

Ok, but how do you set this server-side using Visual SVN Server so that all clients are required and set to use this property!

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:23:28 +0000

@Jon, In this case, it would be just for yourself as you are doing it in your copy of TorToiseSVN. You can read my other post on this subject if you want to do it at the repository level.
http://www.anujgakhar.com/2008/02/14/how-to-force-comments-on-svn-commit/

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:33:44 +0000

Does the comment requirement work for everyone using toroiseSVN or just our working copy? I’ve been trying to figure out how to force comments for specific directories within a repo…

Cheers,
Jon

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:43:28 +0000

@monty, thanks for letting me know. I will try that out. Cheers.

By: Monty Menon

Monty Menon — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:02:58 +0000

Anuj

you can enforce comment length validation on the server side as well by amending your own pre-commit hook script:

instead of ‘findstr .’ use ‘findstr “…..”‘ where a ‘.’ is one char length. In other words the above will enforce a min of 5 chars in the comment.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:31:58 +0000

Thanks a lot! I sometimes forget to include comments so this is very helpful