Thanks for the hook script, been searching for this for ages!

I’m receiving the error “the directory is not a working copy” which leads me to these questions.
Does the “public_html_directory” need to be the full file path?
Does the location of where you want your SVN to be copied to need to be a checked out svn directory?

haha! why my message submitted 3 times, I don’t know
I realise yes it has to be a checkout directory of the SVN, but it’s still not working, possibly permission errors but I’m not sure. When someone commits to the SVN and it executes the post-commit file, does it execute it as apache or the user?

Subversion executes hooks as the same user who owns the process which is accessing the
Subversion repository. In most cases, the repository is being accessed via a Subversion server, so this user is the same user as which that server runs on the system.

The hooks themselves will need to be configured with OS-level permissions that allow that user to execute them. Also, this means that any file or programs (including the Subversion repository itself) accessed
directly or indirectly by the hook will be accessed as the same user. In other words, be alert to potential permission-related problems that could prevent the hook from performing the tasks it is designed to perform.

Marc thanks for the article although that’s a bit all over the place and it’s not very clear. For instance when you say “Create a new whatever.c file and put this code in. Don’t forget to change the directory path.” …change directory path of what? There is no mention of where to create the file in the 1st place :P

…And here I am lost:
Compile the file with this command. It will take the whatever.c and compile it into a binary file.
gcc -o svnupdate svnupdate.c
(Wait wasn’t I compiling whatever.c? Why the command reads svnupdate.c? Should I rename whatever.c to svnupdate.c??)

Try executing the binary to see if it works with the env command.
$ env – ./updatesvn
(After compiling with gcc the resulting compiled binary should be called “svnupdate” why should I try to use “updatesvn” with the env command?)
Alright now copy the whatever binary into your hooks folder. And we’ll also run a couple commands to give it proper priveledges:
I am really lost… could anyone summarize a step by step process for dummies?
Thanks!

By the way what’s the syntax to place in the post-commit to make it run the compiled binary?

Script never managed to update a working copy due to permissions issue. It kept trying to do svn update as apache user.
After a little tweaking of C program, this is the solution I came up with:
int main(void) {
execl(“/usr/bin/svn”, “svn”, “update”,
“/public_html_direcotry/”,
“—username”, “autoupdater”,
“—password”, “autoupdater_password”,
(const char *) NULL);
return(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
Notice, I only added username and password of a svn user to the original script .

Will this method work across servers? I have a standalone svn server and I want to automatically update.

What if the destination directory to updat is on another computer , will changing the parameter of the function “/public_html_direcotry/” to be “root@192.168.200.55:password” work ? if not , what is the right to do ?
thx

Hello.
I lost a few days on configurng SVN hooks for a test repository.
Scheme:
1. SVN repo (Server1-Centos)-Mounted Share
2. Develop server (Server2,Apache2,PHP)-Windows2000,Server, Shared Folder
So I mounted Development Site inside centos using cifs mount. Works great. And SVN update was
messing me around because of these permissions. When Loaded in terminal works fine. I got Log and Echo and everything set up fine. But when updated using SVN clients(RapidSVN,Tortoise on Windows) hooks did not execute. However they did execute only ECHO commands.

echo “SVN START:” > /tmp/svn.log #Works
#svn update /mnt/a/temp/a —non-interactive —username xxxx —password xxxx >> /tmp/svn.log#Doesnt work
/srv/uniline/repositories/its/hooks/svnupdate >> /tmp/svn.log #Works
echo “SVN END” >> /tmp/svn.log #Works
/mnt/a/temp/a is just a folder i tested to update (not whole site until i see that autoupdate is ok).
sou you need to mount share as:

1. mount -t cifs //web1/dev08$/ /mnt/site -o username=Administrator,password=xxxxxxx,rw
   
   Thanks for the C code for making autoupdate work that way.

Good info dude. Found this while trying to refresh my memory on SVN

I have used the auto update as instructed which works fine with a commit done on the linux system but when the commit is done from the windows system (using TortoiseSVN ) i get an error svn: Can’t convert string from native encoding to ‘UTF-8’:
is there a solution to the same

Hi all

Thanks for great document

My postcommit hook is not working , i follow your step by step guide , i have auth base access to my svn site which is running on port 443 , Also i used diffrent documents but no success ,please suggest where i am lacking

I edited a little bit of the post-commit hook.
Since I had multiple svn repository/branches, I figured I’d apply somewhat of a filter, so that the auto svn update would only run on a certain svn branch – Here’s my script:

#!/bin/sh

# POST-COMMIT HOOK

#



svnlook="/usr/bin/svnlook"

REPOS="$1"

REV="$2"

DIR=`$svnlook dirs-changed $REPOS -r $REV`



echo `date +"%Y%m%d-%H:%M:%S"` >> /var/log/svn_commit



if [[ "$DIR" == trunk ]]; then

        /svnroot/hooks/svnupdate >> /var/log/svn_commit

fi

Every time I run the “env – ./svnupdate” command, I get the following message:

Skipped ‘/public_html_direcotry/’ (public_html_direcotry is replaced with the actual html dir)

The script doesn’t work on a commit either.

Any ideas what may be wrong?

Thanks for the tip and the great tutorial. I figured it out! I had to checkout my repo to the public_html_dir before I could use the update command. You rock!

We wrote a similar article for the DV 3.5 servers, enjoy : http://www.debuggeddesigns.com/blog/view/how-to-setup-a-subversion-svn-repo-on-a-media-temple-dv-3.5-server

How would I be able to integrate your approach with the following command I found on the net:

cd /home/www/dev_ssl
svnlook dirs-changed [REPOS] -r [REV] | xargs /usr/bin/svn up -N

The reason I’m interested in this is because the original approach outlined in this post takes a little bit of time to update (sometimes up to a couple minutes) since I have one big repo for all of my projects. I read that the above command only updates those directories that have been changed. However, no matter what I try, it doesnt seem to work properly.

The source for the above code is from:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/446518/using-svn-post-commit-hook-to-update-only-files-that-have-been-commited

Would this work for the gridservice?

This is a great resource for improving your authentication services for linux and other platforms.

Why can’t I just tell the post-commit hook to run
svn up /public_html_direcotry/
instead of creating the binary?

Thanks for a useful post. I’m not sure I saw what I think I saw:

A C++ program that needs to be compiled to… update a SVN checkout :)) Sir, you are seriously twisted ;))

I want automate svn update on windows, using task scheduler
Give more info on a bat script to execute svn update! Tnx!

About the authentication issues some people may be having, see:
http://www.svnforum.org/threads/34952-post-commit-hooks-not-running.?p=103872&viewfull=1#post103872

Remember to co the working copy as file:///path/to/repo/project instead of http://path/to/repo/project
and then
chown -R apache:apache /path/to/working/copy
and make sure the svnupdate binary is SUID apache (same user that owns local wc)