[Monotone-devel] [patch] adding branchname to parameters for validate_commit_message

[Marcel van der Boom]

Included is a small patch which adds branchname as a third parameter  
for the validate_commit_message.

Rationale:
  We use the validate_commit_message to run a set of lua coded  
checks which run over the files which are present in the revision  
about to be committed. Things like coding standards, tab/space, xml  
conformance etc. Those checks are present in a dedicated branch which  
our common rc file looks for and, if present, runs those checks. If  
one of the checks fail, the validation of the commit message returns  
false, cancelling the commit.
For different branches the checks may be different, but we could not  
distinguish between them as there's no way to get to the name of the  
branch in that hook.
I was sort of hoping this line in the NEWS file:

 - 'mtn status' now includes the branch name and parent
    revision id in its output.

would also put that information in the basic_io for the second  
parameter in the hook.
Seeing that it doesnt, here's a patch which adds the branchname  
explicitly :-)

marcel

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PS
A new pre-commit hook would be better maybe, but i'd have  
considerable trouble personally in finding out where to call that  
hook exactly.

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Marcel van der Boom
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