Name
start-commit — Notification of the beginning of a commit.
Description
The start-commit hook is run before the commit
transaction is even created. It is typically used to
decide if the user has commit privileges at all.
If the start-commit hook program returns a non-zero exit
value, the commit is stopped before the commit transaction
is even created, and anything printed to stderr is
marshalled back to the client.
Input Parameter(s)
The command-line arguments passed to the hook program,
in order, are:
repository path
authenticated username attempting the commit
(new in Subversion 1.5) colon separated list of
capabilities that a client passes to the server,
including depth,
mergeinfo, and
log-revprops.
Common Uses
access control (e.g. temporarily lock out commits for
some reason)
a means to allow access only from clients that have
certain capabilities.