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bos@34 1 \chapter{Handling repository events with hooks}
bos@34 2 \label{chap:hook}
bos@34 3
bos@34 4 Mercurial offers a powerful mechanism to let you perform automated
bos@34 5 actions in response to events that occur in a repository. In some
bos@34 6 cases, you can even control Mercurial's response to those events.
bos@34 7
bos@34 8 The name Mercurial uses for one of these actions is a \emph{hook}.
bos@34 9 Hooks are called ``triggers'' in some revision control systems, but
bos@34 10 the two names refer to the same idea.
bos@34 11
bos@38 12 \section{An overview of hooks in Mercurial}
bos@38 13
bos@41 14 Here is a brief list of the hooks that Mercurial supports. We will
bos@41 15 revisit each of these hooks in more detail later, in
bos@41 16 section~\ref{sec:hook:ref}.
bos@41 17
bos@38 18 \begin{itemize}
bos@38 19 \item[\small\hook{changegroup}] This is run after a group of
bos@41 20 changesets has been brought into the repository from elsewhere.
bos@38 21 \item[\small\hook{commit}] This is run after a new changeset has been
bos@41 22 created in the local repository.
bos@38 23 \item[\small\hook{incoming}] This is run once for each new changeset
bos@38 24 that is brought into the repository from elsewhere. Notice the
bos@38 25 difference from \hook{changegroup}, which is run once per
bos@41 26 \emph{group} of changesets brought in.
bos@38 27 \item[\small\hook{outgoing}] This is run after a group of changesets
bos@41 28 has been transmitted from this repository.
bos@38 29 \item[\small\hook{prechangegroup}] This is run before starting to
bos@41 30 bring a group of changesets into the repository.
bos@41 31 \item[\small\hook{precommit}] Controlling. This is run before starting
bos@41 32 a commit.
bos@41 33 \item[\small\hook{preoutgoing}] Controlling. This is run before
bos@41 34 starting to transmit a group of changesets from this repository.
bos@41 35 \item[\small\hook{pretag}] Controlling. This is run before creating a tag.
bos@41 36 \item[\small\hook{pretxnchangegroup}] Controlling. This is run after a
bos@41 37 group of changesets has been brought into the local repository from
bos@41 38 another, but before the transaction completes that will make the
bos@41 39 changes permanent in the repository.
bos@41 40 \item[\small\hook{pretxncommit}] Controlling. This is run after a new
bos@41 41 changeset has been created in the local repository, but before the
bos@41 42 transaction completes that will make it permanent.
bos@41 43 \item[\small\hook{preupdate}] Controlling. This is run before starting
bos@41 44 an update or merge of the working directory.
bos@38 45 \item[\small\hook{tag}] This is run after a tag is created.
bos@38 46 \item[\small\hook{update}] This is run after an update or merge of the
bos@38 47 working directory has finished.
bos@38 48 \end{itemize}
bos@41 49 Each of the hooks whose description begins with the word
bos@41 50 ``Controlling'' has the ability to determine whether an activity can
bos@41 51 proceed. If the hook succeeds, the activity may proceed; if it fails,
bos@41 52 the activity is either not permitted or undone, depending on the hook.
bos@38 53
bos@38 54 \section{Hooks and security}
bos@38 55
bos@38 56 \subsection{Hooks are run with your privileges}
bos@38 57
bos@38 58 When you run a Mercurial command in a repository, and the command
bos@41 59 causes a hook to run, that hook runs on \emph{your} system, under
bos@41 60 \emph{your} user account, with \emph{your} privilege level. Since
bos@41 61 hooks are arbitrary pieces of executable code, you should treat them
bos@41 62 with an appropriate level of suspicion. Do not install a hook unless
bos@41 63 you are confident that you know who created it and what it does.
bos@38 64
bos@38 65 In some cases, you may be exposed to hooks that you did not install
bos@38 66 yourself. If you work with Mercurial on an unfamiliar system,
bos@38 67 Mercurial will run hooks defined in that system's global \hgrc\ file.
bos@38 68
bos@38 69 If you are working with a repository owned by another user, Mercurial
bos@41 70 can run hooks defined in that user's repository, but it will still run
bos@41 71 them as ``you''. For example, if you \hgcmd{pull} from that
bos@41 72 repository, and its \sfilename{.hg/hgrc} defines a local
bos@41 73 \hook{outgoing} hook, that hook will run under your user account, even
bos@41 74 though you don't own that repository.
bos@38 75
bos@38 76 \begin{note}
bos@38 77 This only applies if you are pulling from a repository on a local or
bos@38 78 network filesystem. If you're pulling over http or ssh, any
bos@41 79 \hook{outgoing} hook will run under whatever account is executing
bos@41 80 the server process, on the server.
bos@38 81 \end{note}
bos@38 82
bos@38 83 XXX To see what hooks are defined in a repository, use the
bos@38 84 \hgcmdargs{config}{hooks} command. If you are working in one
bos@38 85 repository, but talking to another that you do not own (e.g.~using
bos@38 86 \hgcmd{pull} or \hgcmd{incoming}), remember that it is the other
bos@38 87 repository's hooks you should be checking, not your own.
bos@38 88
bos@38 89 \subsection{Hooks do not propagate}
bos@38 90
bos@38 91 In Mercurial, hooks are not revision controlled, and do not propagate
bos@38 92 when you clone, or pull from, a repository. The reason for this is
bos@38 93 simple: a hook is a completely arbitrary piece of executable code. It
bos@38 94 runs under your user identity, with your privilege level, on your
bos@38 95 machine.
bos@38 96
bos@38 97 It would be extremely reckless for any distributed revision control
bos@38 98 system to implement revision-controlled hooks, as this would offer an
bos@38 99 easily exploitable way to subvert the accounts of users of the
bos@38 100 revision control system.
bos@38 101
bos@38 102 Since Mercurial does not propagate hooks, if you are collaborating
bos@38 103 with other people on a common project, you should not assume that they
bos@38 104 are using the same Mercurial hooks as you are, or that theirs are
bos@38 105 correctly configured. You should document the hooks you expect people
bos@38 106 to use.
bos@38 107
bos@38 108 In a corporate intranet, this is somewhat easier to control, as you
bos@38 109 can for example provide a ``standard'' installation of Mercurial on an
bos@38 110 NFS filesystem, and use a site-wide \hgrc\ file to define hooks that
bos@38 111 all users will see. However, this too has its limits; see below.
bos@38 112
bos@38 113 \subsection{Hooks can be overridden}
bos@38 114
bos@38 115 Mercurial allows you to override a hook definition by redefining the
bos@38 116 hook. You can disable it by setting its value to the empty string, or
bos@38 117 change its behaviour as you wish.
bos@38 118
bos@38 119 If you deploy a system-~or site-wide \hgrc\ file that defines some
bos@38 120 hooks, you should thus understand that your users can disable or
bos@38 121 override those hooks.
bos@38 122
bos@38 123 \subsection{Ensuring that critical hooks are run}
bos@38 124
bos@38 125 Sometimes you may want to enforce a policy that you do not want others
bos@38 126 to be able to work around. For example, you may have a requirement
bos@38 127 that every changeset must pass a rigorous set of tests. Defining this
bos@38 128 requirement via a hook in a site-wide \hgrc\ won't work for remote
bos@38 129 users on laptops, and of course local users can subvert it at will by
bos@38 130 overriding the hook.
bos@38 131
bos@38 132 Instead, you can set up your policies for use of Mercurial so that
bos@38 133 people are expected to propagate changes through a well-known
bos@38 134 ``canonical'' server that you have locked down and configured
bos@38 135 appropriately.
bos@38 136
bos@38 137 One way to do this is via a combination of social engineering and
bos@38 138 technology. Set up a restricted-access account; users can push
bos@38 139 changes over the network to repositories managed by this account, but
bos@38 140 they cannot log into the account and run normal shell commands. In
bos@38 141 this scenario, a user can commit a changeset that contains any old
bos@38 142 garbage they want.
bos@38 143
bos@38 144 When someone pushes a changeset to the server that everyone pulls
bos@38 145 from, the server will test the changeset before it accepts it as
bos@38 146 permanent, and reject it if it fails to pass the test suite. If
bos@38 147 people only pull changes from this filtering server, it will serve to
bos@38 148 ensure that all changes that people pull have been automatically
bos@38 149 vetted.
bos@38 150
bos@41 151 \section{Using hooks with shared access to a repository}
bos@41 152
bos@41 153 If you want to use hooks to so some automated work in a repository
bos@54 154 that a number of people have shared access to, you need to be careful
bos@41 155 in how you do this.
bos@41 156
bos@41 157 Mercurial only locks a repository when it is writing to the
bos@41 158 repository, and only the parts of Mercurial that write to the
bos@41 159 repository pay attention to locks. Write locks are necessary to
bos@41 160 prevent multiple simultaneous writers from scribbling on each other's
bos@41 161 work, corrupting the repository.
bos@41 162
bos@41 163 Because Mercurial is careful with the order in which it reads and
bos@41 164 writes data, it does not need to acquire a lock when it wants to read
bos@41 165 data from the repository. The parts of Mercurial that read from the
bos@41 166 repository never pay attention to locks. This lockless reading scheme
bos@41 167 greatly increases performance and concurrency.
bos@41 168
bos@41 169 With great performance comes a trade-off, though, one which has the
bos@41 170 potential to cause you trouble unless you're aware of it. To describe
bos@41 171 this requires a little detail about how Mercurial adds changesets to a
bos@41 172 repository and reads those changes.
bos@41 173
bos@41 174 When Mercurial \emph{writes} metadata, it writes it straight into the
bos@41 175 destination file. It writes file data first, then manifest data
bos@41 176 (which contains pointers to the new file data), then changelog data
bos@41 177 (which contains pointers to the new manifest data). Before the first
bos@41 178 write to each file, it stores a record of where the end of the file
bos@41 179 was in its transaction log. If the transaction must be rolled back,
bos@54 180 Mercurial simply truncates each file back to the size it was before the
bos@41 181 transaction began.
bos@41 182
bos@41 183 When Mercurial \emph{reads} metadata, it reads the changelog first,
bos@41 184 then everything else. Since a reader will only access parts of the
bos@41 185 manifest or file metadata that it can see in the changelog, it can
bos@41 186 never see partially written data.
bos@41 187
bos@41 188 Some controlling hooks (\hook{pretxncommit} and
bos@41 189 \hook{pretxnchangegroup}) run when a transaction is almost complete.
bos@41 190 All of the metadata has been written, but Mercurial can still roll the
bos@41 191 transaction back and cause the newly-written data to disappear.
bos@41 192
bos@41 193 If one of these hooks runs for long, it opens a window in which a
bos@41 194 reader can see the metadata for changesets that are, strictly
bos@41 195 speaking, not yet permanent. The longer the hook runs, the bigger the
bos@41 196 window.
bos@41 197
bos@41 198 A good use for the \hook{pretxnchangegroup} hook would be to
bos@41 199 automatically build and test incoming changes before they are accepted
bos@41 200 into the repository, so that you can guarantee that nobody can push
bos@41 201 changes to this repository that ``break the build''. But if a client
bos@41 202 can pull changes while they're being tested, the usefulness of the
bos@41 203 test is zero; someone can pull untested changes.
bos@41 204
bos@41 205 The safest answer to this challenge is to set up such a ``gatekeeper''
bos@41 206 repository as \emph{unidirectional}. It can take changes pushed in
bos@41 207 from the outside, but nobody can pull changes from it. Use the
bos@41 208 \hook{preoutgoing} hook to lock it down. Configure a
bos@41 209 \hook{changegroup} hook so that if a build or test succeeds, the hook
bos@41 210 will push the new changes out to another repository that people
bos@41 211 \emph{can} pull from.
bos@41 212
bos@34 213 \section{A short tutorial on using hooks}
bos@34 214 \label{sec:hook:simple}
bos@34 215
bos@34 216 It is easy to write a Mercurial hook. Let's start with a hook that
bos@34 217 runs when you finish a \hgcmd{commit}, and simply prints the hash of
bos@34 218 the changeset you just created. The hook is called \hook{commit}.
bos@34 219
bos@34 220 \begin{figure}[ht]
bos@34 221 \interaction{hook.simple.init}
bos@34 222 \caption{A simple hook that runs when a changeset is committed}
bos@34 223 \label{ex:hook:init}
bos@34 224 \end{figure}
bos@34 225
bos@34 226 All hooks follow the pattern in example~\ref{ex:hook:init}. You add
bos@34 227 an entry to the \rcsection{hooks} section of your \hgrc\. On the left
bos@34 228 is the name of the event to trigger on; on the right is the action to
bos@34 229 take. As you can see, you can run an arbitrary shell command in a
bos@34 230 hook. Mercurial passes extra information to the hook using
bos@34 231 environment variables (look for \envar{HG\_NODE} in the example).
bos@34 232
bos@34 233 \subsection{Performing multiple actions per event}
bos@34 234
bos@34 235 Quite often, you will want to define more than one hook for a
bos@34 236 particular kind of event, as shown in example~\ref{ex:hook:ext}.
bos@34 237 Mercurial lets you do this by adding an \emph{extension} to the end of
bos@34 238 a hook's name. You extend a hook's name by giving the name of the
bos@34 239 hook, followed by a full stop (the ``\texttt{.}'' character), followed
bos@34 240 by some more text of your choosing. For example, Mercurial will run
bos@34 241 both \texttt{commit.foo} and \texttt{commit.bar} when the
bos@34 242 \texttt{commit} event occurs.
bos@34 243
bos@34 244 \begin{figure}[ht]
bos@34 245 \interaction{hook.simple.ext}
bos@34 246 \caption{Defining a second \hook{commit} hook}
bos@34 247 \label{ex:hook:ext}
bos@34 248 \end{figure}
bos@34 249
bos@34 250 To give a well-defined order of execution when there are multiple
bos@34 251 hooks defined for an event, Mercurial sorts hooks by extension, and
bos@34 252 executes the hook commands in this sorted order. In the above
bos@34 253 example, it will execute \texttt{commit.bar} before
bos@34 254 \texttt{commit.foo}, and \texttt{commit} before both.
bos@34 255
bos@34 256 It is a good idea to use a somewhat descriptive extension when you
bos@34 257 define a new hook. This will help you to remember what the hook was
bos@34 258 for. If the hook fails, you'll get an error message that contains the
bos@34 259 hook name and extension, so using a descriptive extension could give
bos@34 260 you an immediate hint as to why the hook failed (see
bos@34 261 section~\ref{sec:hook:perm} for an example).
bos@34 262
bos@34 263 \subsection{Controlling whether an activity can proceed}
bos@34 264 \label{sec:hook:perm}
bos@34 265
bos@34 266 In our earlier examples, we used the \hook{commit} hook, which is
bos@34 267 run after a commit has completed. This is one of several Mercurial
bos@34 268 hooks that run after an activity finishes. Such hooks have no way of
bos@34 269 influencing the activity itself.
bos@34 270
bos@34 271 Mercurial defines a number of events that occur before an activity
bos@34 272 starts; or after it starts, but before it finishes. Hooks that
bos@34 273 trigger on these events have the added ability to choose whether the
bos@34 274 activity can continue, or will abort.
bos@34 275
bos@34 276 The \hook{pretxncommit} hook runs after a commit has all but
bos@34 277 completed. In other words, the metadata representing the changeset
bos@34 278 has been written out to disk, but the transaction has not yet been
bos@34 279 allowed to complete. The \hook{pretxncommit} hook has the ability to
bos@34 280 decide whether the transaction can complete, or must be rolled back.
bos@34 281
bos@34 282 If the \hook{pretxncommit} hook exits with a status code of zero, the
bos@34 283 transaction is allowed to complete; the commit finishes; and the
bos@34 284 \hook{commit} hook is run. If the \hook{pretxncommit} hook exits with
bos@34 285 a non-zero status code, the transaction is rolled back; the metadata
bos@34 286 representing the changeset is erased; and the \hook{commit} hook is
bos@34 287 not run.
bos@34 288
bos@34 289 \begin{figure}[ht]
bos@34 290 \interaction{hook.simple.pretxncommit}
bos@34 291 \caption{Using the \hook{pretxncommit} hook to control commits}
bos@34 292 \label{ex:hook:pretxncommit}
bos@34 293 \end{figure}
bos@34 294
bos@34 295 The hook in example~\ref{ex:hook:pretxncommit} checks that a commit
bos@34 296 comment contains a bug ID. If it does, the commit can complete. If
bos@34 297 not, the commit is rolled back.
bos@34 298
bos@37 299 \section{Writing your own hooks}
bos@37 300
bos@37 301 When you are writing a hook, you might find it useful to run Mercurial
bos@37 302 either with the \hggopt{-v} option, or the \rcitem{ui}{verbose} config
bos@37 303 item set to ``true''. When you do so, Mercurial will print a message
bos@37 304 before it calls each hook.
bos@37 305
bos@37 306 \subsection{Choosing how your hook should run}
bos@37 307 \label{sec:hook:lang}
bos@34 308
bos@34 309 You can write a hook either as a normal program---typically a shell
bos@37 310 script---or as a Python function that is executed within the Mercurial
bos@34 311 process.
bos@34 312
bos@34 313 Writing a hook as an external program has the advantage that it
bos@34 314 requires no knowledge of Mercurial's internals. You can call normal
bos@34 315 Mercurial commands to get any added information you need. The
bos@34 316 trade-off is that external hooks are slower than in-process hooks.
bos@34 317
bos@34 318 An in-process Python hook has complete access to the Mercurial API,
bos@34 319 and does not ``shell out'' to another process, so it is inherently
bos@34 320 faster than an external hook. It is also easier to obtain much of the
bos@34 321 information that a hook requires by using the Mercurial API than by
bos@34 322 running Mercurial commands.
bos@34 323
bos@34 324 If you are comfortable with Python, or require high performance,
bos@34 325 writing your hooks in Python may be a good choice. However, when you
bos@34 326 have a straightforward hook to write and you don't need to care about
bos@34 327 performance (probably the majority of hooks), a shell script is
bos@34 328 perfectly fine.
bos@34 329
bos@37 330 \subsection{Hook parameters}
bos@34 331 \label{sec:hook:param}
bos@34 332
bos@34 333 Mercurial calls each hook with a set of well-defined parameters. In
bos@34 334 Python, a parameter is passed as a keyword argument to your hook
bos@34 335 function. For an external program, a parameter is passed as an
bos@34 336 environment variable.
bos@34 337
bos@34 338 Whether your hook is written in Python or as a shell script, the
bos@37 339 hook-specific parameter names and values will be the same. A boolean
bos@37 340 parameter will be represented as a boolean value in Python, but as the
bos@37 341 number 1 (for ``true'') or 0 (for ``false'') as an environment
bos@37 342 variable for an external hook. If a hook parameter is named
bos@37 343 \texttt{foo}, the keyword argument for a Python hook will also be
bos@51 344 named \texttt{foo}, while the environment variable for an external
bos@51 345 hook will be named \texttt{HG\_FOO}.
bos@37 346
bos@37 347 \subsection{Hook return values and activity control}
bos@37 348
bos@37 349 A hook that executes successfully must exit with a status of zero if
bos@37 350 external, or return boolean ``false'' if in-process. Failure is
bos@37 351 indicated with a non-zero exit status from an external hook, or an
bos@37 352 in-process hook returning boolean ``true''. If an in-process hook
bos@37 353 raises an exception, the hook is considered to have failed.
bos@37 354
bos@37 355 For a hook that controls whether an activity can proceed, zero/false
bos@37 356 means ``allow'', while non-zero/true/exception means ``deny''.
bos@37 357
bos@37 358 \subsection{Writing an external hook}
bos@37 359
bos@37 360 When you define an external hook in your \hgrc\ and the hook is run,
bos@37 361 its value is passed to your shell, which interprets it. This means
bos@37 362 that you can use normal shell constructs in the body of the hook.
bos@37 363
bos@37 364 An executable hook is always run with its current directory set to a
bos@37 365 repository's root directory.
bos@37 366
bos@37 367 Each hook parameter is passed in as an environment variable; the name
bos@37 368 is upper-cased, and prefixed with the string ``\texttt{HG\_}''.
bos@37 369
bos@37 370 With the exception of hook parameters, Mercurial does not set or
bos@37 371 modify any environment variables when running a hook. This is useful
bos@37 372 to remember if you are writing a site-wide hook that may be run by a
bos@37 373 number of different users with differing environment variables set.
bos@37 374 In multi-user situations, you should not rely on environment variables
bos@37 375 being set to the values you have in your environment when testing the
bos@37 376 hook.
bos@37 377
bos@37 378 \subsection{Telling Mercurial to use an in-process hook}
bos@37 379
bos@37 380 The \hgrc\ syntax for defining an in-process hook is slightly
bos@37 381 different than for an executable hook. The value of the hook must
bos@37 382 start with the text ``\texttt{python:}'', and continue with the
bos@37 383 fully-qualified name of a callable object to use as the hook's value.
bos@37 384
bos@37 385 The module in which a hook lives is automatically imported when a hook
bos@37 386 is run. So long as you have the module name and \envar{PYTHONPATH}
bos@37 387 right, it should ``just work''.
bos@37 388
bos@37 389 The following \hgrc\ example snippet illustrates the syntax and
bos@37 390 meaning of the notions we just described.
bos@37 391 \begin{codesample2}
bos@37 392 [hooks]
bos@37 393 commit.example = python:mymodule.submodule.myhook
bos@37 394 \end{codesample2}
bos@37 395 When Mercurial runs the \texttt{commit.example} hook, it imports
bos@37 396 \texttt{mymodule.submodule}, looks for the callable object named
bos@37 397 \texttt{myhook}, and calls it.
bos@37 398
bos@37 399 \subsection{Writing an in-process hook}
bos@37 400
bos@37 401 The simplest in-process hook does nothing, but illustrates the basic
bos@37 402 shape of the hook API:
bos@37 403 \begin{codesample2}
bos@37 404 def myhook(ui, repo, **kwargs):
bos@37 405 pass
bos@37 406 \end{codesample2}
bos@37 407 The first argument to a Python hook is always a
bos@37 408 \pymodclass{mercurial.ui}{ui} object. The second is a repository object;
bos@37 409 at the moment, it is always an instance of
bos@37 410 \pymodclass{mercurial.localrepo}{localrepository}. Following these two
bos@37 411 arguments are other keyword arguments. Which ones are passed in
bos@37 412 depends on the hook being called, but a hook can ignore arguments it
bos@37 413 doesn't care about by dropping them into a keyword argument dict, as
bos@37 414 with \texttt{**kwargs} above.
bos@34 415
bos@44 416 \section{Some hook examples}
bos@44 417
bos@49 418 \subsection{Writing meaningful commit messages}
bos@49 419
bos@49 420 It's hard to imagine a useful commit message being very short. The
bos@49 421 simple \hook{pretxncommit} hook of figure~\ref{ex:hook:msglen.run}
bos@49 422 will prevent you from committing a changeset with a message that is
bos@49 423 less than ten bytes long.
bos@49 424
bos@49 425 \begin{figure}[ht]
bos@49 426 \interaction{hook.msglen.run}
bos@49 427 \caption{A hook that forbids overly short commit messages}
bos@49 428 \label{ex:hook:msglen.run}
bos@49 429 \end{figure}
bos@49 430
bos@49 431 \subsection{Checking for trailing whitespace}
bos@44 432
bos@44 433 An interesting use of a commit-related hook is to help you to write
bos@44 434 cleaner code. A simple example of ``cleaner code'' is the dictum that
bos@44 435 a change should not add any new lines of text that contain ``trailing
bos@44 436 whitespace''. Trailing whitespace is a series of space and tab
bos@44 437 characters at the end of a line of text. In most cases, trailing
bos@44 438 whitespace is unnecessary, invisible noise, but it is occasionally
bos@49 439 problematic, and people often prefer to get rid of it.
bos@44 440
bos@44 441 You can use either the \hook{precommit} or \hook{pretxncommit} hook to
bos@44 442 tell whether you have a trailing whitespace problem. If you use the
bos@44 443 \hook{precommit} hook, the hook will not know which files you are
bos@44 444 committing, so it will have to check every modified file in the
bos@44 445 repository for trailing white space. If you want to commit a change
bos@44 446 to just the file \filename{foo}, but the file \filename{bar} contains
bos@44 447 trailing whitespace, doing a check in the \hook{precommit} hook will
bos@44 448 prevent you from committing \filename{foo} due to the problem with
bos@44 449 \filename{bar}. This doesn't seem right.
bos@44 450
bos@44 451 Should you choose the \hook{pretxncommit} hook, the check won't occur
bos@44 452 until just before the transaction for the commit completes. This will
bos@44 453 allow you to check for problems only the exact files that are being
bos@44 454 committed. However, if you entered the commit message interactively
bos@44 455 and the hook fails, the transaction will roll back; you'll have to
bos@44 456 re-enter the commit message after you fix the trailing whitespace and
bos@44 457 run \hgcmd{commit} again.
bos@44 458
bos@44 459 \begin{figure}[ht]
bos@44 460 \interaction{hook.ws.simple}
bos@44 461 \caption{A simple hook that checks for trailing whitespace}
bos@44 462 \label{ex:hook:ws.simple}
bos@44 463 \end{figure}
bos@44 464
bos@44 465 Figure~\ref{ex:hook:ws.simple} introduces a simple \hook{pretxncommit}
bos@44 466 hook that checks for trailing whitespace. This hook is short, but not
bos@44 467 very helpful. It exits with an error status if a change adds a line
bos@44 468 with trailing whitespace to any file, but does not print any
bos@49 469 information that might help us to identify the offending file or
bos@49 470 line. It also has the nice property of not paying attention to
bos@49 471 unmodified lines; only lines that introduce new trailing whitespace
bos@49 472 cause problems.
bos@49 473
bos@49 474 \begin{figure}[ht]
bos@49 475 \interaction{hook.ws.better}
bos@49 476 \caption{A better trailing whitespace hook}
bos@49 477 \label{ex:hook:ws.better}
bos@49 478 \end{figure}
bos@49 479
bos@49 480 The example of figure~\ref{ex:hook:ws.better} is much more complex,
bos@49 481 but also more useful. It parses a unified diff to see if any lines
bos@49 482 add trailing whitespace, and prints the name of the file and the line
bos@49 483 number of each such occurrence. Even better, if the change adds
bos@49 484 trailing whitespace, this hook saves the commit comment and prints the
bos@49 485 name of the save file before exiting and telling Mercurial to roll the
bos@49 486 transaction back, so you can use
bos@49 487 \hgcmdargs{commit}{\hgopt{commit}{-l}~\emph{filename}} to reuse the
bos@49 488 saved commit message once you've corrected the problem.
bos@49 489
bos@49 490 As a final aside, note in figure~\ref{ex:hook:ws.better} the use of
bos@49 491 \command{perl}'s in-place editing feature to get rid of trailing
bos@49 492 whitespace from a file. This is concise and useful enough that I will
bos@49 493 reproduce it here.
bos@49 494 \begin{codesample2}
bos@54 495 perl -pi -e 's,\\s+\$,,' filename
bos@49 496 \end{codesample2}
bos@49 497
bos@49 498 \section{Bundled hooks}
bos@49 499
bos@49 500 Mercurial ships with several bundled hooks. You can find them in the
bos@49 501 \dirname{hgext} directory of a Mercurial source tree. If you are
bos@49 502 using a Mercurial binary package, the hooks will be located in the
bos@49 503 \dirname{hgext} directory of wherever your package installer put
bos@49 504 Mercurial.
bos@49 505
bos@49 506 \subsection{\hgext{acl}---access control for parts of a repository}
bos@49 507
bos@49 508 The \hgext{acl} extension lets you control which remote users are
bos@49 509 allowed to push changesets to a networked server. You can protect any
bos@49 510 portion of a repository (including the entire repo), so that a
bos@49 511 specific remote user can push changes that do not affect the protected
bos@49 512 portion.
bos@49 513
bos@49 514 This extension implements access control based on the identity of the
bos@49 515 user performing a push, \emph{not} on who committed the changesets
bos@62 516 they're pushing. It makes sense to use this hook only if you have a
bos@62 517 locked-down server environment that authenticates remote users, and
bos@62 518 you want to be sure that only specific users are allowed to push
bos@62 519 changes to that server.
bos@62 520
bos@62 521 \subsubsection{Configuring the \hook{acl} hook}
bos@62 522
bos@62 523 In order to manage incoming changesets, the \hgext{acl} hook must be
bos@62 524 used as a \hook{pretxnchangegroup} hook. This lets it see which files
bos@62 525 are modified by each incoming changeset, and roll back a group of
bos@62 526 changesets if they modify ``forbidden'' files. Example:
bos@62 527 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 528 [hooks]
bos@62 529 pretxnchangegroup.acl = python:hgext.acl.hook
bos@62 530 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 531
bos@62 532 The \hgext{acl} extension is configured using three sections.
bos@62 533
bos@62 534 The \rcsection{acl} section has only one entry, \rcitem{acl}{sources},
bos@62 535 which lists the sources of incoming changesets that the hook should
bos@62 536 pay attention to. You don't normally need to configure this section.
bos@62 537 \begin{itemize}
bos@64 538 \item[\rcitem{acl}{serve}] Control incoming changesets that are arriving
bos@62 539 from a remote repository over http or ssh. This is the default
bos@62 540 value of \rcitem{acl}{sources}, and usually the only setting you'll
bos@62 541 need for this configuration item.
bos@64 542 \item[\rcitem{acl}{pull}] Control incoming changesets that are
bos@64 543 arriving via a pull from a local repository.
bos@64 544 \item[\rcitem{acl}{push}] Control incoming changesets that are
bos@64 545 arriving via a push from a local repository.
bos@64 546 \item[\rcitem{acl}{bundle}] Control incoming changesets that are
bos@64 547 arriving from another repository via a bundle.
bos@62 548 \end{itemize}
bos@62 549
bos@62 550 The \rcsection{acl.allow} section controls the users that are allowed to
bos@62 551 add changesets to the repository. If this section is not present, all
bos@62 552 users that are not explicitly denied are allowed. If this section is
bos@62 553 present, all users that are not explicitly allowed are denied (so an
bos@62 554 empty section means that all users are denied).
bos@62 555
bos@62 556 The \rcsection{acl.deny} section determines which users are denied
bos@62 557 from adding changesets to the repository. If this section is not
bos@62 558 present or is empty, no users are denied.
bos@62 559
bos@62 560 The syntaxes for the \rcsection{acl.allow} and \rcsection{acl.deny}
bos@62 561 sections are identical. On the left of each entry is a glob pattern
bos@62 562 that matches files or directories, relative to the root of the
bos@62 563 repository; on the right, a user name.
bos@62 564
bos@62 565 In the following example, the user \texttt{docwriter} can only push
bos@62 566 changes to the \dirname{docs} subtree of the repository, while
bos@62 567 \texttt{intern} can push changes to any file or directory except
bos@62 568 \dirname{source/sensitive}.
bos@62 569 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 570 [acl.allow]
bos@62 571 docs/** = docwriter
bos@62 572
bos@62 573 [acl.deny]
bos@62 574 source/sensitive/** = intern
bos@62 575 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 576
bos@62 577 \subsubsection{Testing and troubleshooting}
bos@62 578
bos@62 579 If you want to test the \hgext{acl} hook, run it with Mercurial's
bos@62 580 debugging output enabled. Since you'll probably be running it on a
bos@62 581 server where it's not convenient (or sometimes possible) to pass in
bos@62 582 the \hggopt{--debug} option, don't forget that you can enable
bos@62 583 debugging output in your \hgrc:
bos@62 584 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 585 [ui]
bos@62 586 debug = true
bos@62 587 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 588 With this enabled, the \hgext{acl} hook will print enough information
bos@62 589 to let you figure out why it is allowing or forbidding pushes from
bos@62 590 specific users.
bos@62 591
bos@62 592 \subsection{\hgext{bugzilla}---integration with Bugzilla}
bos@62 593
bos@62 594 The \hgext{bugzilla} extension adds a comment to a Bugzilla bug
bos@62 595 whenever it finds a reference to that bug ID in a commit comment. You
bos@62 596 can install this hook on a shared server, so that any time a remote
bos@62 597 user pushes changes to this server, the hook gets run.
bos@62 598
bos@62 599 It adds a comment to the bug that looks like this (you can configure
bos@62 600 the contents of the comment---see below):
bos@62 601 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 602 Changeset aad8b264143a, made by Joe User <joe.user@domain.com> in
bos@62 603 the frobnitz repository, refers to this bug.
bos@62 604
bos@62 605 For complete details, see
bos@62 606 http://hg.domain.com/frobnitz?cmd=changeset;node=aad8b264143a
bos@62 607
bos@62 608 Changeset description:
bos@62 609 Fix bug 10483 by guarding against some NULL pointers
bos@62 610 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 611 The value of this hook is that it automates the process of updating a
bos@62 612 bug any time a changeset refers to it. If you configure the hook
bos@62 613 properly, it makes it easy for people to browse straight from a
bos@62 614 Bugzilla bug to a changeset that refers to that bug.
bos@62 615
bos@62 616 You can use the code in this hook as a starting point for some more
bos@62 617 exotic Bugzilla integration recipes. Here are a few possibilities:
bos@62 618 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 619 \item Require that every changeset pushed to the server have a valid
bos@62 620 bug~ID in its commit comment. In this case, you'd want to configure
bos@62 621 the hook as a \hook{pretxncommit} hook. This would allow the hook
bos@62 622 to reject changes that didn't contain bug IDs.
bos@62 623 \item Allow incoming changesets to automatically modify the
bos@62 624 \emph{state} of a bug, as well as simply adding a comment. For
bos@62 625 example, the hook could recognise the string ``fixed bug 31337'' as
bos@62 626 indicating that it should update the state of bug 31337 to
bos@62 627 ``requires testing''.
bos@62 628 \end{itemize}
bos@62 629
bos@62 630 \subsubsection{Configuring the \hook{bugzilla} hook}
bos@62 631 \label{sec:hook:bugzilla:config}
bos@62 632
bos@62 633 You should configure this hook in your server's \hgrc\ as an
bos@62 634 \hook{incoming} hook, for example as follows:
bos@62 635 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 636 [hooks]
bos@62 637 incoming.bugzilla = python:hgext.bugzilla.hook
bos@62 638 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 639
bos@62 640 Because of the specialised nature of this hook, and because Bugzilla
bos@62 641 was not written with this kind of integration in mind, configuring
bos@62 642 this hook is a somewhat involved process.
bos@62 643
bos@62 644 Before you begin, you must install the MySQL bindings for Python on
bos@62 645 the host(s) where you'll be running the hook. If this is not
bos@62 646 available as a binary package for your system, you can download it
bos@62 647 from~\cite{web:mysql-python}.
bos@62 648
bos@62 649 Configuration information for this hook lives in the
bos@62 650 \rcsection{bugzilla} section of your \hgrc.
bos@62 651 \begin{itemize}
bos@64 652 \item[\rcitem{bugzilla}{version}] The version of Bugzilla installed on
bos@64 653 the server. The database schema that Bugzilla uses changes
bos@62 654 occasionally, so this hook has to know exactly which schema to use.
bos@62 655 At the moment, the only version supported is \texttt{2.16}.
bos@64 656 \item[\rcitem{bugzilla}{host}] The hostname of the MySQL server that
bos@64 657 stores your Bugzilla data. The database must be configured to allow
bos@64 658 connections from whatever host you are running the \hook{bugzilla}
bos@64 659 hook on.
bos@64 660 \item[\rcitem{bugzilla}{user}] The username with which to connect to
bos@64 661 the MySQL server. The database must be configured to allow this
bos@64 662 user to connect from whatever host you are running the
bos@64 663 \hook{bugzilla} hook on. This user must be able to access and
bos@64 664 modify Bugzilla tables. The default value of this item is
bos@64 665 \texttt{bugs}, which is the standard name of the Bugzilla user in a
bos@64 666 MySQL database.
bos@64 667 \item[\rcitem{bugzilla}{password}] The MySQL password for the user you
bos@62 668 configured above. This is stored as plain text, so you should make
bos@62 669 sure that unauthorised users cannot read the \hgrc\ file where you
bos@62 670 store this information.
bos@64 671 \item[\rcitem{bugzilla}{db}] The name of the Bugzilla database on the
bos@64 672 MySQL server. The default value of this item is \texttt{bugs},
bos@64 673 which is the standard name of the MySQL database where Bugzilla
bos@64 674 stores its data.
bos@64 675 \item[\rcitem{bugzilla}{notify}] If you want Bugzilla to send out a
bos@64 676 notification email to subscribers after this hook has added a
bos@64 677 comment to a bug, you will need this hook to run a command whenever
bos@64 678 it updates the database. The command to run depends on where you
bos@64 679 have installed Bugzilla, but it will typically look something like
bos@64 680 this, if you have Bugzilla installed in
bos@64 681 \dirname{/var/www/html/bugzilla}:
bos@62 682 \begin{codesample4}
bos@62 683 cd /var/www/html/bugzilla && ./processmail %s nobody@nowhere.com
bos@62 684 \end{codesample4}
bos@62 685 The Bugzilla \texttt{processmail} program expects to be given a
bos@62 686 bug~ID (the hook replaces ``\texttt{\%s}'' with the bug~ID) and an
bos@62 687 email address. It also expects to be able to write to some files in
bos@62 688 the directory that it runs in. If Bugzilla and this hook are not
bos@62 689 installed on the same machine, you will need to find a way to run
bos@62 690 \texttt{processmail} on the server where Bugzilla is installed.
bos@62 691 \end{itemize}
bos@62 692
bos@62 693 \subsubsection{Mapping committer names to Bugzilla user names}
bos@62 694
bos@62 695 By default, the \hgext{bugzilla} hook tries to use the email address
bos@62 696 of a changeset's committer as the Bugzilla user name with which to
bos@62 697 update a bug. If this does not suit your needs, you can map committer
bos@62 698 email addresses to Bugzilla user names using a \rcsection{usermap}
bos@62 699 section.
bos@62 700
bos@62 701 Each item in the \rcsection{usermap} section contains an email address
bos@62 702 on the left, and a Bugzilla user name on the right.
bos@62 703 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 704 [usermap]
bos@62 705 jane.user@example.com = jane
bos@62 706 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 707 You can either keep the \rcsection{usermap} data in a normal \hgrc, or
bos@62 708 tell the \hgext{bugzilla} hook to read the information from an
bos@62 709 external \filename{usermap} file. In the latter case, you can store
bos@62 710 \filename{usermap} data by itself in (for example) a user-modifiable
bos@62 711 repository. This makes it possible to let your users maintain their
bos@64 712 own \rcitem{bugzilla}{usermap} entries. The main \hgrc\ file might
bos@64 713 look like this:
bos@62 714 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 715 # regular hgrc file refers to external usermap file
bos@62 716 [bugzilla]
bos@62 717 usermap = /home/hg/repos/userdata/bugzilla-usermap.conf
bos@62 718 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 719 While the \filename{usermap} file that it refers to might look like
bos@62 720 this:
bos@62 721 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 722 # bugzilla-usermap.conf - inside a hg repository
bos@62 723 [usermap]
bos@62 724 stephanie@example.com = steph
bos@62 725 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 726
bos@62 727 \subsubsection{Configuring the text that gets added to a bug}
bos@62 728
bos@62 729 You can configure the text that this hook adds as a comment; you
bos@62 730 specify it in the form of a Mercurial template. Several \hgrc\
bos@62 731 entries (still in the \rcsection{bugzilla} section) control this
bos@62 732 behaviour.
bos@62 733 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 734 \item[\texttt{strip}] The number of leading path elements to strip
bos@62 735 from a repository's path name to construct a partial path for a URL.
bos@62 736 For example, if the repositories on your server live under
bos@62 737 \dirname{/home/hg/repos}, and you have a repository whose path is
bos@62 738 \dirname{/home/hg/repos/app/tests}, then setting \texttt{strip} to
bos@62 739 \texttt{4} will give a partial path of \dirname{app/tests}. The
bos@62 740 hook will make this partial path available when expanding a
bos@62 741 template, as \texttt{webroot}.
bos@62 742 \item[\texttt{template}] The text of the template to use. In addition
bos@62 743 to the usual changeset-related variables, this template can use
bos@62 744 \texttt{hgweb} (the value of the \texttt{hgweb} configuration item
bos@62 745 above) and \texttt{webroot} (the path constructed using
bos@62 746 \texttt{strip} above).
bos@62 747 \end{itemize}
bos@62 748
bos@64 749 In addition, you can add a \rcitem{web}{baseurl} item to the
bos@64 750 \rcsection{web} section of your \hgrc. The \hgext{bugzilla} hook will
bos@64 751 make this available when expanding a template, as the base string to
bos@64 752 use when constructing a URL that will let users browse from a Bugzilla
bos@64 753 comment to view a changeset. Example:
bos@64 754 \begin{codesample2}
bos@64 755 [web]
bos@64 756 baseurl = http://hg.domain.com/
bos@64 757 \end{codesample2}
bos@64 758
bos@62 759 Here is an example set of \hgext{bugzilla} hook config information.
bos@62 760 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 761 [bugzilla]
bos@62 762 host = bugzilla.example.com
bos@62 763 password = mypassword
bos@62 764 version = 2.16
bos@62 765 # server-side repos live in /home/hg/repos, so strip 4 leading
bos@62 766 # separators
bos@62 767 strip = 4
bos@62 768 hgweb = http://hg.example.com/
bos@62 769 usermap = /home/hg/repos/notify/bugzilla.conf
bos@62 770 template = Changeset \{node|short\}, made by \{author\} in the \{webroot\}
bos@62 771 repo, refers to this bug.\\nFor complete details, see
bos@62 772 \{hgweb\}\{webroot\}?cmd=changeset;node=\{node|short\}\\nChangeset
bos@62 773 description:\\n\\t\{desc|tabindent\}
bos@62 774 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 775
bos@62 776 \subsubsection{Testing and troubleshooting}
bos@62 777
bos@62 778 The most common problems with configuring the \hgext{bugzilla} hook
bos@62 779 relate to running Bugzilla's \filename{processmail} script and mapping
bos@62 780 committer names to user names.
bos@62 781
bos@62 782 Recall from section~\ref{sec:hook:bugzilla:config} above that the user
bos@62 783 that runs the Mercurial process on the server is also the one that
bos@62 784 will run the \filename{processmail} script. The
bos@62 785 \filename{processmail} script sometimes causes Bugzilla to write to
bos@62 786 files in its configuration directory, and Bugzilla's configuration
bos@62 787 files are usually owned by the user that your web server runs under.
bos@62 788
bos@62 789 You can cause \filename{processmail} to be run with the suitable
bos@62 790 user's identity using the \command{sudo} command. Here is an example
bos@62 791 entry for a \filename{sudoers} file.
bos@62 792 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 793 hg_user = (httpd_user) NOPASSWD: /var/www/html/bugzilla/processmail-wrapper %s
bos@62 794 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 795 This allows the \texttt{hg\_user} user to run a
bos@62 796 \filename{processmail-wrapper} program under the identity of
bos@62 797 \texttt{httpd\_user}.
bos@62 798
bos@62 799 This indirection through a wrapper script is necessary, because
bos@62 800 \filename{processmail} expects to be run with its current directory
bos@62 801 set to wherever you installed Bugzilla; you can't specify that kind of
bos@62 802 constraint in a \filename{sudoers} file. The contents of the wrapper
bos@62 803 script are simple:
bos@62 804 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 805 #!/bin/sh
bos@62 806 cd `dirname $0` && ./processmail "$1" nobody@example.com
bos@62 807 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 808 It doesn't seem to matter what email address you pass to
bos@62 809 \filename{processmail}.
bos@62 810
bos@62 811 If your \rcsection{usermap} is not set up correctly, users will see an
bos@62 812 error message from the \hgext{bugzilla} hook when they push changes
bos@62 813 to the server. The error message will look like this:
bos@62 814 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 815 cannot find bugzilla user id for john.q.public@example.com
bos@62 816 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 817 What this means is that the committer's address,
bos@62 818 \texttt{john.q.public@example.com}, is not a valid Bugzilla user name,
bos@62 819 nor does it have an entry in your \rcsection{usermap} that maps it to
bos@62 820 a valid Bugzilla user name.
bos@62 821
bos@62 822 \subsection{\hgext{notify}---send email notifications}
bos@62 823
bos@62 824 Although Mercurial's built-in web server provides RSS feeds of changes
bos@62 825 in every repository, many people prefer to receive change
bos@62 826 notifications via email. The \hgext{notify} hook lets you send out
bos@62 827 notifications to a set of email addresses whenever changesets arrive
bos@62 828 that those subscribers are interested in.
bos@62 829
bos@62 830 As with the \hgext{bugzilla} hook, the \hgext{notify} hook is
bos@62 831 template-driven, so you can customise the contents of the notification
bos@62 832 messages that it sends.
bos@62 833
bos@62 834 By default, the \hgext{notify} hook includes a diff of every changeset
bos@63 835 that it sends out; you can limit the size of the diff, or turn this
bos@62 836 feature off entirely. It is useful for letting subscribers review
bos@62 837 changes immediately, rather than clicking to follow a URL.
bos@62 838
bos@62 839 \subsubsection{Configuring the \hgext{notify} hook}
bos@62 840
bos@62 841 You can set up the \hgext{notify} hook to send one email message per
bos@62 842 incoming changeset, or one per incoming group of changesets (all those
bos@62 843 that arrived in a single pull or push).
bos@62 844 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 845 [hooks]
bos@62 846 # send one email per group of changes
bos@62 847 changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
bos@62 848 # send one email per change
bos@62 849 incoming.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
bos@62 850 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 851
bos@62 852 Configuration information for this hook lives in the
bos@62 853 \rcsection{notify} section of a \hgrc\ file.
bos@62 854 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 855 \item[\rcitem{notify}{test}] By default, this hook does not send out
bos@62 856 email at all; instead, it prints the message that it \emph{would}
bos@62 857 send. Set this item to \texttt{false} to allow email to be sent.
bos@62 858 The reason that sending of email is turned off by default is that it
bos@62 859 takes several tries to configure this extension exactly as you would
bos@62 860 like, and it would be bad form to spam subscribers with a number of
bos@62 861 ``broken'' notifications while you debug your configuration.
bos@62 862 \item[\rcitem{notify}{config}] The path to a configuration file that
bos@63 863 contains subscription information. This is kept separate from the
bos@62 864 main \hgrc\ so that you can maintain it in a repository of its own.
bos@62 865 People can then clone that repository, update their subscriptions,
bos@62 866 and push the changes back to your server.
bos@62 867 \item[\rcitem{notify}{strip}] The number of leading path separator
bos@62 868 characters to strip from a repository's path, when deciding whether
bos@62 869 a repository has subscribers. For example, if the repositories on
bos@62 870 your server live in \dirname{/home/hg/repos}, and \hgext{notify} is
bos@62 871 considering a repository named \dirname{/home/hg/repos/shared/test},
bos@62 872 setting \rcitem{notify}{strip} to \texttt{4} will cause
bos@62 873 \hgext{notify} to trim the path it considers down to
bos@62 874 \dirname{shared/test}, and it will match subscribers against that.
bos@62 875 \item[\rcitem{notify}{template}] The template text to use when sending
bos@62 876 messages. This specifies both the contents of the message header
bos@62 877 and its body.
bos@62 878 \item[\rcitem{notify}{maxdiff}] The maximum number of lines of diff
bos@62 879 data to append to the end of a message. If a diff is longer than
bos@62 880 this, it is truncated. By default, this is set to 300. Set this to
bos@62 881 \texttt{0} to omit diffs from notification emails.
bos@62 882 \item[\rcitem{notify}{sources}] A list of sources of changesets to
bos@62 883 consider. This lets you limit \hgext{notify} to only sending out
bos@62 884 email about changes that remote users pushed into this repository
bos@62 885 via a server, for example. See section~\ref{sec:hook:sources} for
bos@62 886 the sources you can specify here.
bos@62 887 \end{itemize}
bos@62 888
bos@62 889 If you set the \rcitem{web}{baseurl} item in the \rcsection{web}
bos@62 890 section, you can use it in a template; it will be available as
bos@62 891 \texttt{webroot}.
bos@62 892
bos@62 893 Here is an example set of \hgext{notify} configuration information.
bos@62 894 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 895 [notify]
bos@62 896 # really send email
bos@62 897 test = false
bos@62 898 # subscriber data lives in the notify repo
bos@62 899 config = /home/hg/repos/notify/notify.conf
bos@62 900 # repos live in /home/hg/repos on server, so strip 4 "/" chars
bos@62 901 strip = 4
bos@62 902 template = X-Hg-Repo: \{webroot\}\\n\\\\
bos@62 903 Subject: \{webroot\}: \{desc|firstline|strip\}\\n\\\\
bos@62 904 From: \{author\}\\n\\\\
bos@62 905 \\n\\\\
bos@62 906 changeset \{node|short\} in \{root\}\\n\\\\
bos@62 907 details: \{baseurl\}\{webroot\}?cmd=changeset;node=\{node|short\}\\n\\\\
bos@62 908 description:\\n\\\\
bos@62 909 \\t\{desc|tabindent|strip\}
bos@62 910
bos@62 911 [web]
bos@62 912 baseurl = http://hg.example.com/
bos@62 913 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 914
bos@62 915 This will produce a message that looks like the following:
bos@62 916 \begin{codesample2}
bos@62 917 X-Hg-Repo: tests/slave
bos@62 918 Subject: tests/slave: Handle error case when slave has no buffers
bos@62 919 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:25:46 -0700 (PDT)
bos@62 920
bos@62 921 changeset 3cba9bfe74b5 in /home/hg/repos/tests/slave
bos@62 922 details: http://hg.example.com/tests/slave?cmd=changeset;node=3cba9bfe74b5
bos@62 923 description:
bos@62 924 Handle error case when slave has no buffers
bos@62 925 diffs (54 lines):
bos@62 926
bos@62 927 diff -r 9d95df7cf2ad -r 3cba9bfe74b5 include/tests.h
bos@62 928 --- a/include/tests.h Wed Aug 02 15:19:52 2006 -0700
bos@62 929 +++ b/include/tests.h Wed Aug 02 15:25:26 2006 -0700
bos@62 930 @@ -212,6 +212,15 @@ static __inline__ void test_headers(void *h)
bos@62 931 [...snip...]
bos@62 932 \end{codesample2}
bos@62 933
bos@62 934 \subsubsection{Testing and troubleshooting}
bos@62 935
bos@62 936 Do not forget that by default, the \hgext{notify} extension \emph{will
bos@62 937 not send any mail} until you explicitly configure it to do so, by
bos@62 938 setting \rcitem{notify}{test} to \texttt{false}. Until you do that,
bos@62 939 it simply prints the message it \emph{would} send.
bos@44 940
bos@64 941 \section{Information for writers of hooks}
bos@41 942 \label{sec:hook:ref}
bos@39 943
bos@39 944 \subsection{In-process hook execution}
bos@39 945
bos@39 946 An in-process hook is called with arguments of the following form:
bos@39 947 \begin{codesample2}
bos@39 948 def myhook(ui, repo, **kwargs):
bos@39 949 pass
bos@39 950 \end{codesample2}
bos@39 951 The \texttt{ui} parameter is a \pymodclass{mercurial.ui}{ui} object.
bos@39 952 The \texttt{repo} parameter is a
bos@39 953 \pymodclass{mercurial.localrepo}{localrepository} object. The
bos@39 954 names and values of the \texttt{**kwargs} parameters depend on the
bos@39 955 hook being invoked, with the following common features:
bos@39 956 \begin{itemize}
bos@39 957 \item If a parameter is named \texttt{node} or
bos@39 958 \texttt{parent\emph{N}}, it will contain a hexadecimal changeset ID.
bos@39 959 The empty string is used to represent ``null changeset ID'' instead
bos@39 960 of a string of zeroes.
bos@62 961 \item If a parameter is named \texttt{url}, it will contain the URL of
bos@62 962 a remote repository, if that can be determined.
bos@39 963 \item Boolean-valued parameters are represented as Python
bos@39 964 \texttt{bool} objects.
bos@39 965 \end{itemize}
bos@39 966
bos@39 967 An in-process hook is called without a change to the process's working
bos@39 968 directory (unlike external hooks, which are run in the root of the
bos@62 969 repository). It must not change the process's working directory, or
bos@62 970 it will cause any calls it makes into the Mercurial API to fail.
bos@62 971
bos@62 972 If a hook returns a boolean ``false'' value, it is considered to have
bos@62 973 succeeded. If it returns a boolean ``true'' value or raises an
bos@62 974 exception, it is considered to have failed. A useful way to think of
bos@62 975 the calling convention is ``tell me if you fail''.
bos@62 976
bos@62 977 Note that changeset IDs are passed into Python hooks as hexadecimal
bos@62 978 strings, not the binary hashes that Mercurial's APIs normally use. To
bos@62 979 convert a hash from hex to binary, use the
bos@62 980 \pymodfunc{mercurial.node}{bin} function.
bos@39 981
bos@39 982 \subsection{External hook execution}
bos@39 983
bos@62 984 An external hook is passed to the shell of the user running Mercurial.
bos@62 985 Features of that shell, such as variable substitution and command
bos@39 986 redirection, are available. The hook is run in the root directory of
bos@62 987 the repository (unlike in-process hooks, which are run in the same
bos@62 988 directory that Mercurial was run in).
bos@39 989
bos@39 990 Hook parameters are passed to the hook as environment variables. Each
bos@39 991 environment variable's name is converted in upper case and prefixed
bos@39 992 with the string ``\texttt{HG\_}''. For example, if the name of a
bos@39 993 parameter is ``\texttt{node}'', the name of the environment variable
bos@39 994 representing that parameter will be ``\texttt{HG\_NODE}''.
bos@39 995
bos@39 996 A boolean parameter is represented as the string ``\texttt{1}'' for
bos@39 997 ``true'', ``\texttt{0}'' for ``false''. If an environment variable is
bos@39 998 named \envar{HG\_NODE}, \envar{HG\_PARENT1} or \envar{HG\_PARENT2}, it
bos@39 999 contains a changeset ID represented as a hexadecimal string. The
bos@39 1000 empty string is used to represent ``null changeset ID'' instead of a
bos@62 1001 string of zeroes. If an environment variable is named
bos@62 1002 \envar{HG\_URL}, it will contain the URL of a remote repository, if
bos@62 1003 that can be determined.
bos@39 1004
bos@39 1005 If a hook exits with a status of zero, it is considered to have
bos@39 1006 succeeded. If it exits with a non-zero status, it is considered to
bos@39 1007 have failed.
bos@39 1008
bos@62 1009 \subsection{Finding out where changesets come from}
bos@62 1010
bos@62 1011 A hook that involves the transfer of changesets between a local
bos@62 1012 repository and another may be able to find out information about the
bos@62 1013 ``far side''. Mercurial knows \emph{how} changes are being
bos@62 1014 transferred, and in many cases \emph{where} they are being transferred
bos@62 1015 to or from.
bos@62 1016
bos@62 1017 \subsubsection{Sources of changesets}
bos@62 1018 \label{sec:hook:sources}
bos@62 1019
bos@62 1020 Mercurial will tell a hook what means are, or were, used to transfer
bos@62 1021 changesets between repositories. This is provided by Mercurial in a
bos@62 1022 Python parameter named \texttt{source}, or an environment variable named
bos@62 1023 \envar{HG\_SOURCE}.
bos@62 1024
bos@62 1025 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 1026 \item[\texttt{serve}] Changesets are transferred to or from a remote
bos@62 1027 repository over http or ssh.
bos@62 1028 \item[\texttt{pull}] Changesets are being transferred via a pull from
bos@62 1029 one repository into another.
bos@62 1030 \item[\texttt{push}] Changesets are being transferred via a push from
bos@62 1031 one repository into another.
bos@62 1032 \item[\texttt{bundle}] Changesets are being transferred to or from a
bos@62 1033 bundle.
bos@62 1034 \end{itemize}
bos@62 1035
bos@62 1036 \subsubsection{Where changes are going---remote repository URLs}
bos@62 1037 \label{sec:hook:url}
bos@62 1038
bos@62 1039 When possible, Mercurial will tell a hook the location of the ``far
bos@62 1040 side'' of an activity that transfers changeset data between
bos@62 1041 repositories. This is provided by Mercurial in a Python parameter
bos@62 1042 named \texttt{url}, or an environment variable named \envar{HG\_URL}.
bos@62 1043
bos@62 1044 This information is not always known. If a hook is invoked in a
bos@62 1045 repository that is being served via http or ssh, Mercurial cannot tell
bos@62 1046 where the remote repository is, but it may know where the client is
bos@62 1047 connecting from. In such cases, the URL will take one of the
bos@62 1048 following forms:
bos@62 1049 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 1050 \item \texttt{remote:ssh:\emph{ip-address}}---remote ssh client, at
bos@62 1051 the given IP address.
bos@62 1052 \item \texttt{remote:http:\emph{ip-address}}---remote http client, at
bos@62 1053 the given IP address. If the client is using SSL, this will be of
bos@62 1054 the form \texttt{remote:https:\emph{ip-address}}.
bos@62 1055 \item Empty---no information could be discovered about the remote
bos@62 1056 client.
bos@62 1057 \end{itemize}
bos@62 1058
bos@64 1059 \section{Hook reference}
bos@64 1060
bos@64 1061 \subsection{\hook{changegroup}---after remote changesets added}
bos@39 1062 \label{sec:hook:changegroup}
bos@39 1063
bos@40 1064 This hook is run after a group of pre-existing changesets has been
bos@40 1065 added to the repository, for example via a \hgcmd{pull} or
bos@40 1066 \hgcmd{unbundle}. This hook is run once per operation that added one
bos@41 1067 or more changesets. This is in contrast to the \hook{incoming} hook,
bos@41 1068 which is run once per changeset, regardless of whether the changesets
bos@41 1069 arrive in a group.
bos@41 1070
bos@41 1071 Some possible uses for this hook include kicking off an automated
bos@41 1072 build or test of the added changesets, updating a bug database, or
bos@41 1073 notifying subscribers that a repository contains new changes.
bos@40 1074
bos@40 1075 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1076 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1077 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the first
bos@40 1078 changeset in the group that was added. All changesets between this
bos@40 1079 and \index{tags!\texttt{tip}}\texttt{tip}, inclusive, were added by
bos@40 1080 a single \hgcmd{pull}, \hgcmd{push} or \hgcmd{unbundle}.
bos@62 1081 \item[\texttt{source}] A string. The source of these changes. See
bos@62 1082 section~\ref{sec:hook:sources} for details.
bos@62 1083 \item[\texttt{url}] A URL. The location of the remote repository, if
bos@62 1084 known. See section~\ref{sec:hook:url} for more information.
bos@40 1085 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1086
bos@40 1087 See also: \hook{incoming} (section~\ref{sec:hook:incoming}),
bos@40 1088 \hook{prechangegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:prechangegroup}),
bos@40 1089 \hook{pretxnchangegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup})
bos@39 1090
bos@64 1091 \subsection{\hook{commit}---after a new changeset is created}
bos@39 1092 \label{sec:hook:commit}
bos@39 1093
bos@40 1094 This hook is run after a new changeset has been created.
bos@40 1095
bos@40 1096 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1097 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1098 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the newly
bos@40 1099 committed changeset.
bos@40 1100 \item[\texttt{parent1}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the first
bos@40 1101 parent of the newly committed changeset.
bos@40 1102 \item[\texttt{parent2}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the second
bos@40 1103 parent of the newly committed changeset.
bos@40 1104 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1105
bos@40 1106 See also: \hook{precommit} (section~\ref{sec:hook:precommit}),
bos@40 1107 \hook{pretxncommit} (section~\ref{sec:hook:pretxncommit})
bos@40 1108
bos@64 1109 \subsection{\hook{incoming}---after one remote changeset is added}
bos@40 1110 \label{sec:hook:incoming}
bos@40 1111
bos@40 1112 This hook is run after a pre-existing changeset has been added to the
bos@40 1113 repository, for example via a \hgcmd{push}. If a group of changesets
bos@40 1114 was added in a single operation, this hook is called once for each
bos@40 1115 added changeset.
bos@40 1116
bos@41 1117 You can use this hook for the same purposes as the \hook{changegroup}
bos@41 1118 hook (section~\ref{sec:hook:changegroup}); it's simply more convenient
bos@54 1119 sometimes to run a hook once per group of changesets, while other
bos@41 1120 times it's handier once per changeset.
bos@41 1121
bos@40 1122 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1123 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1124 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The ID of the newly added
bos@39 1125 changeset.
bos@62 1126 \item[\texttt{source}] A string. The source of these changes. See
bos@62 1127 section~\ref{sec:hook:sources} for details.
bos@62 1128 \item[\texttt{url}] A URL. The location of the remote repository, if
bos@62 1129 known. See section~\ref{sec:hook:url} for more information.
bos@40 1130 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1131
bos@40 1132 See also: \hook{changegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:changegroup}) \hook{prechangegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:prechangegroup}), \hook{pretxnchangegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup})
bos@40 1133
bos@64 1134 \subsection{\hook{outgoing}---after changesets are propagated}
bos@40 1135 \label{sec:hook:outgoing}
bos@40 1136
bos@40 1137 This hook is run after a group of changesets has been propagated out
bos@40 1138 of this repository, for example by a \hgcmd{push} or \hgcmd{bundle}
bos@40 1139 command.
bos@40 1140
bos@41 1141 One possible use for this hook is to notify administrators that
bos@41 1142 changes have been pulled.
bos@41 1143
bos@40 1144 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1145 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1146 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the first
bos@40 1147 changeset of the group that was sent.
bos@62 1148 \item[\texttt{source}] A string. The source of the of the operation
bos@62 1149 (see section~\ref{sec:hook:sources}). If a remote client pulled
bos@62 1150 changes from this repository, \texttt{source} will be
bos@62 1151 \texttt{serve}. If the client that obtained changes from this
bos@62 1152 repository was local, \texttt{source} will be \texttt{bundle},
bos@62 1153 \texttt{pull}, or \texttt{push}, depending on the operation the
bos@62 1154 client performed.
bos@62 1155 \item[\texttt{url}] A URL. The location of the remote repository, if
bos@62 1156 known. See section~\ref{sec:hook:url} for more information.
bos@40 1157 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1158
bos@40 1159 See also: \hook{preoutgoing} (section~\ref{sec:hook:preoutgoing})
bos@40 1160
bos@64 1161 \subsection{\hook{prechangegroup}---before starting to add remote changesets}
bos@40 1162 \label{sec:hook:prechangegroup}
bos@40 1163
bos@41 1164 This controlling hook is run before Mercurial begins to add a group of
bos@41 1165 changesets from another repository.
bos@41 1166
bos@41 1167 This hook does not have any information about the changesets to be
bos@41 1168 added, because it is run before transmission of those changesets is
bos@41 1169 allowed to begin. If this hook fails, the changesets will not be
bos@41 1170 transmitted.
bos@41 1171
bos@41 1172 One use for this hook is to prevent external changes from being added
bos@62 1173 to a repository. For example, you could use this to ``freeze'' a
bos@62 1174 server-hosted branch temporarily or permanently so that users cannot
bos@62 1175 push to it, while still allowing a local administrator to modify the
bos@62 1176 repository.
bos@62 1177
bos@62 1178 Parameters to this hook:
bos@62 1179 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 1180 \item[\texttt{source}] A string. The source of these changes. See
bos@62 1181 section~\ref{sec:hook:sources} for details.
bos@62 1182 \item[\texttt{url}] A URL. The location of the remote repository, if
bos@62 1183 known. See section~\ref{sec:hook:url} for more information.
bos@62 1184 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1185
bos@40 1186 See also: \hook{changegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:changegroup}),
bos@40 1187 \hook{incoming} (section~\ref{sec:hook:incoming}), ,
bos@40 1188 \hook{pretxnchangegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup})
bos@40 1189
bos@64 1190 \subsection{\hook{precommit}---before starting to commit a changeset}
bos@40 1191 \label{sec:hook:precommit}
bos@40 1192
bos@41 1193 This hook is run before Mercurial begins to commit a new changeset.
bos@41 1194 It is run before Mercurial has any of the metadata for the commit,
bos@41 1195 such as the files to be committed, the commit message, or the commit
bos@41 1196 date.
bos@41 1197
bos@41 1198 One use for this hook is to disable the ability to commit new
bos@41 1199 changesets, while still allowing incoming changesets. Another is to
bos@41 1200 run a build or test, and only allow the commit to begin if the build
bos@41 1201 or test succeeds.
bos@40 1202
bos@40 1203 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1204 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1205 \item[\texttt{parent1}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the first
bos@40 1206 parent of the working directory.
bos@40 1207 \item[\texttt{parent2}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the second
bos@40 1208 parent of the working directory.
bos@40 1209 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1210 If the commit proceeds, the parents of the working directory will
bos@40 1211 become the parents of the new changeset.
bos@40 1212
bos@40 1213 See also: \hook{commit} (section~\ref{sec:hook:commit}),
bos@40 1214 \hook{pretxncommit} (section~\ref{sec:hook:pretxncommit})
bos@40 1215
bos@64 1216 \subsection{\hook{preoutgoing}---before starting to propagate changesets}
bos@40 1217 \label{sec:hook:preoutgoing}
bos@40 1218
bos@40 1219 This hook is invoked before Mercurial knows the identities of the
bos@40 1220 changesets to be transmitted.
bos@40 1221
bos@41 1222 One use for this hook is to prevent changes from being transmitted to
bos@41 1223 another repository.
bos@41 1224
bos@40 1225 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1226 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1227 \item[\texttt{source}] A string. The source of the operation that is
bos@62 1228 attempting to obtain changes from this repository (see
bos@62 1229 section~\ref{sec:hook:sources}). See the documentation for the
bos@62 1230 \texttt{source} parameter to the \hook{outgoing} hook, in
bos@62 1231 section~\ref{sec:hook:outgoing}, for possible values of this
bos@62 1232 parameter.
bos@62 1233 \item[\texttt{url}] A URL. The location of the remote repository, if
bos@62 1234 known. See section~\ref{sec:hook:url} for more information.
bos@40 1235 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1236
bos@40 1237 See also: \hook{outgoing} (section~\ref{sec:hook:outgoing})
bos@40 1238
bos@64 1239 \subsection{\hook{pretag}---before tagging a changeset}
bos@40 1240 \label{sec:hook:pretag}
bos@40 1241
bos@41 1242 This controlling hook is run before a tag is created. If the hook
bos@41 1243 succeeds, creation of the tag proceeds. If the hook fails, the tag is
bos@41 1244 not created.
bos@41 1245
bos@40 1246 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1247 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1248 \item[\texttt{local}] A boolean. Whether the tag is local to this
bos@40 1249 repository instance (i.e.~stored in \sfilename{.hg/tags}) or managed
bos@40 1250 by Mercurial (stored in \sfilename{.hgtags}).
bos@40 1251 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The ID of the changeset to be tagged.
bos@40 1252 \item[\texttt{tag}] A string. The name of the tag to be created.
bos@40 1253 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1254
bos@40 1255 If the tag to be created is revision-controlled, the \hook{precommit}
bos@40 1256 and \hook{pretxncommit} hooks (sections~\ref{sec:hook:commit}
bos@40 1257 and~\ref{sec:hook:pretxncommit}) will also be run.
bos@40 1258
bos@40 1259 See also: \hook{tag} (section~\ref{sec:hook:tag})
bos@40 1260
bos@64 1261 \subsection{\hook{pretxnchangegroup}---before completing addition of
bos@64 1262 remote changesets}
bos@40 1263 \label{sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup}
bos@40 1264
bos@41 1265 This controlling hook is run before a transaction---that manages the
bos@41 1266 addition of a group of new changesets from outside the
bos@41 1267 repository---completes. If the hook succeeds, the transaction
bos@41 1268 completes, and all of the changesets become permanent within this
bos@41 1269 repository. If the hook fails, the transaction is rolled back, and
bos@41 1270 the data for the changesets is erased.
bos@41 1271
bos@41 1272 This hook can access the metadata associated with the almost-added
bos@41 1273 changesets, but it should not do anything permanent with this data.
bos@41 1274 It must also not modify the working directory.
bos@41 1275
bos@41 1276 While this hook is running, if other Mercurial processes access this
bos@41 1277 repository, they will be able to see the almost-added changesets as if
bos@41 1278 they are permanent. This may lead to race conditions if you do not
bos@41 1279 take steps to avoid them.
bos@41 1280
bos@41 1281 This hook can be used to automatically vet a group of changesets. If
bos@41 1282 the hook fails, all of the changesets are ``rejected'' when the
bos@41 1283 transaction rolls back.
bos@41 1284
bos@62 1285 Parameters to this hook:
bos@62 1286 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 1287 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the first
bos@62 1288 changeset in the group that was added. All changesets between this
bos@62 1289 and \index{tags!\texttt{tip}}\texttt{tip}, inclusive, were added by
bos@62 1290 a single \hgcmd{pull}, \hgcmd{push} or \hgcmd{unbundle}.
bos@62 1291 \item[\texttt{source}] A string. The source of these changes. See
bos@62 1292 section~\ref{sec:hook:sources} for details.
bos@62 1293 \item[\texttt{url}] A URL. The location of the remote repository, if
bos@62 1294 known. See section~\ref{sec:hook:url} for more information.
bos@62 1295 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1296
bos@40 1297 See also: \hook{changegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:changegroup}),
bos@40 1298 \hook{incoming} (section~\ref{sec:hook:incoming}),
bos@40 1299 \hook{prechangegroup} (section~\ref{sec:hook:prechangegroup})
bos@40 1300
bos@64 1301 \subsection{\hook{pretxncommit}---before completing commit of new changeset}
bos@40 1302 \label{sec:hook:pretxncommit}
bos@40 1303
bos@41 1304 This controlling hook is run before a transaction---that manages a new
bos@41 1305 commit---completes. If the hook succeeds, the transaction completes
bos@41 1306 and the changeset becomes permanent within this repository. If the
bos@41 1307 hook fails, the transaction is rolled back, and the commit data is
bos@41 1308 erased.
bos@41 1309
bos@41 1310 This hook can access the metadata associated with the almost-new
bos@41 1311 changeset, but it should not do anything permanent with this data. It
bos@41 1312 must also not modify the working directory.
bos@41 1313
bos@41 1314 While this hook is running, if other Mercurial processes access this
bos@41 1315 repository, they will be able to see the almost-new changeset as if it
bos@41 1316 is permanent. This may lead to race conditions if you do not take
bos@41 1317 steps to avoid them.
bos@41 1318
bos@62 1319 Parameters to this hook:
bos@62 1320 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 1321 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the newly
bos@62 1322 committed changeset.
bos@62 1323 \item[\texttt{parent1}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the first
bos@62 1324 parent of the newly committed changeset.
bos@62 1325 \item[\texttt{parent2}] A changeset ID. The changeset ID of the second
bos@62 1326 parent of the newly committed changeset.
bos@62 1327 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1328
bos@40 1329 See also: \hook{precommit} (section~\ref{sec:hook:precommit})
bos@40 1330
bos@64 1331 \subsection{\hook{preupdate}---before updating or merging working directory}
bos@40 1332 \label{sec:hook:preupdate}
bos@40 1333
bos@41 1334 This controlling hook is run before an update or merge of the working
bos@41 1335 directory begins. It is run only if Mercurial's normal pre-update
bos@41 1336 checks determine that the update or merge can proceed. If the hook
bos@41 1337 succeeds, the update or merge may proceed; if it fails, the update or
bos@41 1338 merge does not start.
bos@41 1339
bos@40 1340 Parameters to this hook:
bos@40 1341 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1342 \item[\texttt{parent1}] A changeset ID. The ID of the parent that the
bos@40 1343 working directory is to be updated to. If the working directory is
bos@40 1344 being merged, it will not change this parent.
bos@40 1345 \item[\texttt{parent2}] A changeset ID. Only set if the working
bos@40 1346 directory is being merged. The ID of the revision that the working
bos@40 1347 directory is being merged with.
bos@40 1348 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1349
bos@40 1350 See also: \hook{update} (section~\ref{sec:hook:update})
bos@40 1351
bos@64 1352 \subsection{\hook{tag}---after tagging a changeset}
bos@40 1353 \label{sec:hook:tag}
bos@40 1354
bos@41 1355 This hook is run after a tag has been created.
bos@41 1356
bos@62 1357 Parameters to this hook:
bos@62 1358 \begin{itemize}
bos@62 1359 \item[\texttt{local}] A boolean. Whether the new tag is local to this
bos@62 1360 repository instance (i.e.~stored in \sfilename{.hg/tags}) or managed
bos@62 1361 by Mercurial (stored in \sfilename{.hgtags}).
bos@62 1362 \item[\texttt{node}] A changeset ID. The ID of the changeset that was
bos@62 1363 tagged.
bos@62 1364 \item[\texttt{tag}] A string. The name of the tag that was created.
bos@62 1365 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1366
bos@40 1367 If the created tag is revision-controlled, the \hook{commit} hook
bos@41 1368 (section~\ref{sec:hook:commit}) is run before this hook.
bos@40 1369
bos@40 1370 See also: \hook{pretag} (section~\ref{sec:hook:pretag})
bos@40 1371
bos@64 1372 \subsection{\hook{update}---after updating or merging working directory}
bos@40 1373 \label{sec:hook:update}
bos@40 1374
bos@41 1375 This hook is run after an update or merge of the working directory
bos@41 1376 completes. Since a merge can fail (if the external \command{hgmerge}
bos@41 1377 command fails to resolve conflicts in a file), this hook communicates
bos@41 1378 whether the update or merge completed cleanly.
bos@41 1379
bos@40 1380 \begin{itemize}
bos@40 1381 \item[\texttt{error}] A boolean. Indicates whether the update or
bos@40 1382 merge completed successfully.
bos@40 1383 \item[\texttt{parent1}] A changeset ID. The ID of the parent that the
bos@40 1384 working directory was updated to. If the working directory was
bos@40 1385 merged, it will not have changed this parent.
bos@40 1386 \item[\texttt{parent2}] A changeset ID. Only set if the working
bos@40 1387 directory was merged. The ID of the revision that the working
bos@40 1388 directory was merged with.
bos@40 1389 \end{itemize}
bos@40 1390
bos@40 1391 See also: \hook{preupdate} (section~\ref{sec:hook:preupdate})
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