On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 22:05 +0000, Ian Boston wrote: > Does this help? > > At the start of this thread, Adam was concerned that the commit > contained re-formatting. > WIth the commit hook in place, every commit would be forced to fix all > formatting errors anywhere near the patched lines, which is exactly > what Adam was concerned about. > That would continue until all the code was complaint, at which point > it might begin to serve the purpose. > > I assume the commit hook would run against the patch rather than the > entire file, and presumably it would only be a set of regex's rather > than a full checkstyle run.
The entire ASF shares an SVN repo, which facilitates easy movement of code between projects, etc. It does also mean that the entire ASF shares a set of commit hooks. Therefore, regardless of whether they are a good idea or not, we're not likely to get hooks set up just for us. Upayavira
