Subversion post-commit hook

Question

I have created a subversion post-commit hook to send out an email everytime a commit is made.Im calling a python script from the file post-commit in /var/svn/repos/hooks .

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

~/svnnotify.py $REV

But the problem is that the svn commit command is taking a longer time to terminate as it waits for the python script to terminate first . Is there any way around this ?

Thank You

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '09 at 05:58

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Try adding an ampersand (&) after the line that calls your script to put it in the background and return immediately.

answered Nov 21 '09 at 05:58

Paul McMillan

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thanks for the reply :)..i have tried that..doesnt seem to work..is it because im passing an argument to the script ? – JoeRP Nov 21 '09 at 06:01
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The `&` at the end works fine for me. Could be because I'm also redirecting the output (at the moment to a temporary log file, could also be /dev/null, of course): `/some/dir/bin/pythonscript >> /tmp/my_thingy.log 2>&1 &` is what my post-commit hook looks like. – Reinout van Rees Nov 22 '09 at 16:27

Umesh · Answer 2 · 2009-11-21T06:03:11.277

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Call a batch file and in that batch file execute python script to run in the background by adding ampersand at end of command in batch file( & ).

edited Nov 21 '09 at 06:03

answered Nov 21 '09 at 05:57

Umesh

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 21 '09 at 06:08

Maybe put the update in a simple queue that gets scooped up by a script run invoked from cron and sends a message if something is sitting in the queue.

Queue could be a simple file in /tmp, an sqlite file, or a MySQL table.

If it's taking noticeably long to send the e-mail, maybe there's something up with the code in the notify script. It shouldn't take that long to put an e-email in the local mail queue.

Subversion post-commit hook

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