[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [arch-users] hooks and remote archives

[Bruce Stephens]

Miles Egan <address@hidden> writes:

> I've gotten pretty used to having server-side commit hooks that send
> email when anyone working on a project commits a change in CVS and
> subversion.  From what I can tell from the documentation, it looks
> like arch only supports per-user hooks in ~/.arch_params/hook.  Is
> there any way to set up a common commit hook for all trees in an
> archive?

You can't do this, because there's currently nothing in the client
that uses hooks defined in the archive.  And there's no server to do
stuff.

So you'll need to do it by introducing some kind of process.  For
example, for the archive that many people may commit to (perhaps
because it represents what you'd use the CVS HEAD for, or because
you're wanting to have something to make releases from, or whatever),
you could have that archive owned by a special user, and set up that
user with whatever hooks you want.  

Then everyone works in their own archives, and occasionally logs in as
this special user and tags the most recent version in their archive
(or perhaps merging from their archive would be better?).