Post-commit hook to send error message to the client

Question

Am using svnserver in my windows(7) machine.

I need to send errror message from post-commit.bat to the svn client(may be any client) in windows.

any idea to do this ?

Thanks,

Answer 1

I have managed to do this accidentally where the post commit hook failed and the failure message is reported to the user.

GUI clients should display the error message.

We encountered this when we had scmbug installed and its connection to bugzilla was broken. This would suggest that you just need to get the post-commit hook to return an error code (return non-zero) and output the error message you want displayed.

HTH

Answer 2

Note that the error should be written to stderr, not stdout for it to be displayed by clients.

So for an 'echo' to be visible through clients you should use

echo Non-Fatal error: Commit succeeded but issue tracker not updated >&2