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3 <chapter id="chap:hook">
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4 <?dbhtml filename="handling-repository-events-with-hooks.html"?>
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5 <title>Handling repository events with hooks</title>
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6
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7 <para id="x_1e6">Mercurial offers a powerful mechanism to let you perform
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8 automated actions in response to events that occur in a
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9 repository. In some cases, you can even control Mercurial's
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10 response to those events.</para>
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11
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12 <para id="x_1e7">The name Mercurial uses for one of these actions is a
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13 <emphasis>hook</emphasis>. Hooks are called
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14 <quote>triggers</quote> in some revision control systems, but the
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15 two names refer to the same idea.</para>
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16
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17 <sect1>
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18 <title>An overview of hooks in Mercurial</title>
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19
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20 <para id="x_1e8">Here is a brief list of the hooks that Mercurial
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21 supports. We will revisit each of these hooks in more detail
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22 later, in <xref linkend="sec:hook:ref"/>.</para>
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23
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24 <para id="x_1f6">Each of the hooks whose description begins with the word
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25 <quote>Controlling</quote> has the ability to determine whether
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26 an activity can proceed. If the hook succeeds, the activity may
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27 proceed; if it fails, the activity is either not permitted or
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28 undone, depending on the hook.</para>
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29
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30 <itemizedlist>
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31 <listitem><para id="x_1e9"><literal role="hook">changegroup</literal>: This
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32 is run after a group of changesets has been brought into the
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33 repository from elsewhere.</para>
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34 </listitem>
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35 <listitem><para id="x_1ea"><literal role="hook">commit</literal>: This is
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36 run after a new changeset has been created in the local
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37 repository.</para>
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38 </listitem>
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39 <listitem><para id="x_1eb"><literal role="hook">incoming</literal>: This is
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40 run once for each new changeset that is brought into the
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41 repository from elsewhere. Notice the difference from
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42 <literal role="hook">changegroup</literal>, which is run
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43 once per <emphasis>group</emphasis> of changesets brought
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44 in.</para>
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45 </listitem>
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46 <listitem><para id="x_1ec"><literal role="hook">outgoing</literal>: This is
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47 run after a group of changesets has been transmitted from
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48 this repository.</para>
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49 </listitem>
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50 <listitem><para id="x_1ed"><literal role="hook">prechangegroup</literal>:
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51 This is run before starting to bring a group of changesets
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52 into the repository.
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53 </para>
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54 </listitem>
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55 <listitem><para id="x_1ee"><literal role="hook">precommit</literal>:
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56 Controlling. This is run before starting a commit.
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57 </para>
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58 </listitem>
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59 <listitem><para id="x_1ef"><literal role="hook">preoutgoing</literal>:
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60 Controlling. This is run before starting to transmit a group
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61 of changesets from this repository.
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62 </para>
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63 </listitem>
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64 <listitem><para id="x_1f0"><literal role="hook">pretag</literal>:
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65 Controlling. This is run before creating a tag.
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66 </para>
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67 </listitem>
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68 <listitem><para id="x_1f1"><literal
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69 role="hook">pretxnchangegroup</literal>: Controlling. This
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70 is run after a group of changesets has been brought into the
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71 local repository from another, but before the transaction
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72 completes that will make the changes permanent in the
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73 repository.
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74 </para>
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75 </listitem>
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76 <listitem><para id="x_1f2"><literal role="hook">pretxncommit</literal>:
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77 Controlling. This is run after a new changeset has been
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78 created in the local repository, but before the transaction
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79 completes that will make it permanent.
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80 </para>
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81 </listitem>
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82 <listitem><para id="x_1f3"><literal role="hook">preupdate</literal>:
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83 Controlling. This is run before starting an update or merge
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84 of the working directory.
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85 </para>
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86 </listitem>
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87 <listitem><para id="x_1f4"><literal role="hook">tag</literal>: This is run
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88 after a tag is created.
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89 </para>
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90 </listitem>
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91 <listitem><para id="x_1f5"><literal role="hook">update</literal>: This is
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92 run after an update or merge of the working directory has
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93 finished.
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94 </para>
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95 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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96
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97 </sect1>
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98 <sect1>
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99 <title>Hooks and security</title>
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100
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101 <sect2>
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102 <title>Hooks are run with your privileges</title>
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103
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104 <para id="x_1f7">When you run a Mercurial command in a repository, and the
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105 command causes a hook to run, that hook runs on
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106 <emphasis>your</emphasis> system, under
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107 <emphasis>your</emphasis> user account, with
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108 <emphasis>your</emphasis> privilege level. Since hooks are
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109 arbitrary pieces of executable code, you should treat them
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110 with an appropriate level of suspicion. Do not install a hook
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111 unless you are confident that you know who created it and what
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112 it does.
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113 </para>
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114
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115 <para id="x_1f8">In some cases, you may be exposed to hooks that you did
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116 not install yourself. If you work with Mercurial on an
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117 unfamiliar system, Mercurial will run hooks defined in that
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118 system's global <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>
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119 file.
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120 </para>
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121
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122 <para id="x_1f9">If you are working with a repository owned by another
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123 user, Mercurial can run hooks defined in that user's
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124 repository, but it will still run them as <quote>you</quote>.
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125 For example, if you <command role="hg-cmd">hg pull</command>
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126 from that repository, and its <filename
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127 role="special">.hg/hgrc</filename> defines a local <literal
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128 role="hook">outgoing</literal> hook, that hook will run
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129 under your user account, even though you don't own that
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130 repository.
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131 </para>
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132
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133 <note>
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134 <para id="x_1fa"> This only applies if you are pulling from a repository
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135 on a local or network filesystem. If you're pulling over
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136 http or ssh, any <literal role="hook">outgoing</literal>
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137 hook will run under whatever account is executing the server
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138 process, on the server.
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139 </para>
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140 </note>
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141
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142 <para id="x_1fb">To see what hooks are defined in a repository,
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143 use the <command role="hg-cmd">hg showconfig hooks</command>
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144 command. If you are working in one repository, but talking to
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145 another that you do not own (e.g. using <command
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146 role="hg-cmd">hg pull</command> or <command role="hg-cmd">hg
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147 incoming</command>), remember that it is the other
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148 repository's hooks you should be checking, not your own.
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149 </para>
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150 </sect2>
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151
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152 <sect2>
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153 <title>Hooks do not propagate</title>
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154
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155 <para id="x_1fc">In Mercurial, hooks are not revision controlled, and do
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156 not propagate when you clone, or pull from, a repository. The
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157 reason for this is simple: a hook is a completely arbitrary
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158 piece of executable code. It runs under your user identity,
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159 with your privilege level, on your machine.
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160 </para>
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161
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162 <para id="x_1fd">It would be extremely reckless for any distributed
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163 revision control system to implement revision-controlled
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164 hooks, as this would offer an easily exploitable way to
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165 subvert the accounts of users of the revision control system.
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166 </para>
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167
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168 <para id="x_1fe">Since Mercurial does not propagate hooks, if you are
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169 collaborating with other people on a common project, you
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170 should not assume that they are using the same Mercurial hooks
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171 as you are, or that theirs are correctly configured. You
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172 should document the hooks you expect people to use.
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173 </para>
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174
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175 <para id="x_1ff">In a corporate intranet, this is somewhat easier to
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176 control, as you can for example provide a
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177 <quote>standard</quote> installation of Mercurial on an NFS
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178 filesystem, and use a site-wide <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> file to define hooks that all users will
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179 see. However, this too has its limits; see below.
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180 </para>
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181 </sect2>
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182
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183 <sect2>
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184 <title>Hooks can be overridden</title>
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185
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186 <para id="x_200">Mercurial allows you to override a hook definition by
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187 redefining the hook. You can disable it by setting its value
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188 to the empty string, or change its behavior as you wish.
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189 </para>
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190
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191 <para id="x_201">If you deploy a system- or site-wide <filename
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192 role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> file that defines some
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193 hooks, you should thus understand that your users can disable
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194 or override those hooks.
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195 </para>
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196 </sect2>
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197
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198 <sect2>
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199 <title>Ensuring that critical hooks are run</title>
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200
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201 <para id="x_202">Sometimes you may want to enforce a policy that you do not
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202 want others to be able to work around. For example, you may
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203 have a requirement that every changeset must pass a rigorous
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204 set of tests. Defining this requirement via a hook in a
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205 site-wide <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> won't
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206 work for remote users on laptops, and of course local users
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207 can subvert it at will by overriding the hook.
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208 </para>
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209
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210 <para id="x_203">Instead, you can set up your policies for use of Mercurial
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211 so that people are expected to propagate changes through a
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212 well-known <quote>canonical</quote> server that you have
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213 locked down and configured appropriately.
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214 </para>
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215
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216 <para id="x_204">One way to do this is via a combination of social
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217 engineering and technology. Set up a restricted-access
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218 account; users can push changes over the network to
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219 repositories managed by this account, but they cannot log into
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220 the account and run normal shell commands. In this scenario,
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221 a user can commit a changeset that contains any old garbage
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222 they want.
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223 </para>
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224
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225 <para id="x_205">When someone pushes a changeset to the server that
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226 everyone pulls from, the server will test the changeset before
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227 it accepts it as permanent, and reject it if it fails to pass
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228 the test suite. If people only pull changes from this
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229 filtering server, it will serve to ensure that all changes
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230 that people pull have been automatically vetted.
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231 </para>
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232
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233 </sect2>
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234 </sect1>
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235
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236 <sect1 id="sec:hook:simple">
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237 <title>A short tutorial on using hooks</title>
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238
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239 <para id="x_212">It is easy to write a Mercurial hook. Let's start with a
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240 hook that runs when you finish a <command role="hg-cmd">hg
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241 commit</command>, and simply prints the hash of the changeset
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242 you just created. The hook is called <literal
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243 role="hook">commit</literal>.
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244 </para>
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245
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246 <para id="x_213">All hooks follow the pattern in this example.</para>
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247
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248 &interaction.hook.simple.init;
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249
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250 <para id="x_214">You add an entry to the <literal
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251 role="rc-hooks">hooks</literal> section of your <filename
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252 role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>. On the left is the name of
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253 the event to trigger on; on the right is the action to take. As
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254 you can see, you can run an arbitrary shell command in a hook.
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255 Mercurial passes extra information to the hook using environment
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256 variables (look for <envar>HG_NODE</envar> in the example).
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257 </para>
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259 <sect2>
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260 <title>Performing multiple actions per event</title>
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261
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262 <para id="x_215">Quite often, you will want to define more than one hook
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263 for a particular kind of event, as shown below.</para>
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264
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265 &interaction.hook.simple.ext;
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266
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267 <para id="x_216">Mercurial lets you do this by adding an
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268 <emphasis>extension</emphasis> to the end of a hook's name.
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269 You extend a hook's name by giving the name of the hook,
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270 followed by a full stop (the
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271 <quote><literal>.</literal></quote> character), followed by
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272 some more text of your choosing. For example, Mercurial will
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273 run both <literal>commit.foo</literal> and
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274 <literal>commit.bar</literal> when the
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275 <literal>commit</literal> event occurs.
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276 </para>
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277
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278 <para id="x_217">To give a well-defined order of execution when there are
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279 multiple hooks defined for an event, Mercurial sorts hooks by
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280 extension, and executes the hook commands in this sorted
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281 order. In the above example, it will execute
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282 <literal>commit.bar</literal> before
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283 <literal>commit.foo</literal>, and <literal>commit</literal>
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284 before both.
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285 </para>
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286
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287 <para id="x_218">It is a good idea to use a somewhat descriptive
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288 extension when you define a new hook. This will help you to
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289 remember what the hook was for. If the hook fails, you'll get
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290 an error message that contains the hook name and extension, so
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291 using a descriptive extension could give you an immediate hint
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292 as to why the hook failed (see <xref
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293 linkend="sec:hook:perm"/> for an example).
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294 </para>
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297 <sect2 id="sec:hook:perm">
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298 <title>Controlling whether an activity can proceed</title>
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299
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300 <para id="x_219">In our earlier examples, we used the <literal
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301 role="hook">commit</literal> hook, which is run after a
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302 commit has completed. This is one of several Mercurial hooks
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303 that run after an activity finishes. Such hooks have no way
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304 of influencing the activity itself.
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305 </para>
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306
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307 <para id="x_21a">Mercurial defines a number of events that occur before an
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308 activity starts; or after it starts, but before it finishes.
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309 Hooks that trigger on these events have the added ability to
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310 choose whether the activity can continue, or will abort.
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311 </para>
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312
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313 <para id="x_21b">The <literal role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hook runs
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314 after a commit has all but completed. In other words, the
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315 metadata representing the changeset has been written out to
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316 disk, but the transaction has not yet been allowed to
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317 complete. The <literal role="hook">pretxncommit</literal>
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318 hook has the ability to decide whether the transaction can
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319 complete, or must be rolled back.
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320 </para>
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321
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322 <para id="x_21c">If the <literal role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hook
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323 exits with a status code of zero, the transaction is allowed
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324 to complete; the commit finishes; and the <literal
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325 role="hook">commit</literal> hook is run. If the <literal
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326 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hook exits with a
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327 non-zero status code, the transaction is rolled back; the
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328 metadata representing the changeset is erased; and the
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329 <literal role="hook">commit</literal> hook is not run.
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330 </para>
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332 &interaction.hook.simple.pretxncommit;
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333
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334 <para id="x_21d">The hook in the example above checks that a commit comment
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335 contains a bug ID. If it does, the commit can complete. If
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336 not, the commit is rolled back.
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337 </para>
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341 <sect1>
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342 <title>Writing your own hooks</title>
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345 Mercurial either with the <option
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346 role="hg-opt-global">-v</option> option, or the <envar
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347 role="rc-item-ui">verbose</envar> config item set to
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348 <quote>true</quote>. When you do so, Mercurial will print a
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349 message before it calls each hook.
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350 </para>
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351
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352 <sect2 id="sec:hook:lang">
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353 <title>Choosing how your hook should run</title>
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354
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355 <para id="x_21f">You can write a hook either as a normal
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356 program&emdash;typically a shell script&emdash;or as a Python
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357 function that is executed within the Mercurial process.
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358 </para>
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359
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360 <para id="x_220">Writing a hook as an external program has the advantage
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361 that it requires no knowledge of Mercurial's internals. You
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362 can call normal Mercurial commands to get any added
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363 information you need. The trade-off is that external hooks
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364 are slower than in-process hooks.
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365 </para>
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366
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367 <para id="x_221">An in-process Python hook has complete access to the
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368 Mercurial API, and does not <quote>shell out</quote> to
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369 another process, so it is inherently faster than an external
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370 hook. It is also easier to obtain much of the information
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371 that a hook requires by using the Mercurial API than by
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372 running Mercurial commands.
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373 </para>
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374
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375 <para id="x_222">If you are comfortable with Python, or require high
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376 performance, writing your hooks in Python may be a good
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377 choice. However, when you have a straightforward hook to
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378 write and you don't need to care about performance (probably
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379 the majority of hooks), a shell script is perfectly fine.
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380 </para>
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382 </sect2>
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383 <sect2 id="sec:hook:param">
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384 <title>Hook parameters</title>
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385
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386 <para id="x_223">Mercurial calls each hook with a set of well-defined
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387 parameters. In Python, a parameter is passed as a keyword
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388 argument to your hook function. For an external program, a
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389 parameter is passed as an environment variable.
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390 </para>
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391
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392 <para id="x_224">Whether your hook is written in Python or as a shell
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393 script, the hook-specific parameter names and values will be
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394 the same. A boolean parameter will be represented as a
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395 boolean value in Python, but as the number 1 (for
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396 <quote>true</quote>) or 0 (for <quote>false</quote>) as an
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397 environment variable for an external hook. If a hook
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398 parameter is named <literal>foo</literal>, the keyword
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399 argument for a Python hook will also be named
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400 <literal>foo</literal>, while the environment variable for an
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401 external hook will be named <literal>HG_FOO</literal>.
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402 </para>
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403 </sect2>
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404
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405 <sect2>
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406 <title>Hook return values and activity control</title>
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407
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408 <para id="x_225">A hook that executes successfully must exit with a status
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409 of zero if external, or return boolean <quote>false</quote> if
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410 in-process. Failure is indicated with a non-zero exit status
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411 from an external hook, or an in-process hook returning boolean
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412 <quote>true</quote>. If an in-process hook raises an
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413 exception, the hook is considered to have failed.
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414 </para>
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415
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416 <para id="x_226">For a hook that controls whether an activity can proceed,
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417 zero/false means <quote>allow</quote>, while
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418 non-zero/true/exception means <quote>deny</quote>.
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419 </para>
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420 </sect2>
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421
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422 <sect2>
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423 <title>Writing an external hook</title>
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424
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425 <para id="x_227">When you define an external hook in your <filename
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426 role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> and the hook is run, its
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427 value is passed to your shell, which interprets it. This
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428 means that you can use normal shell constructs in the body of
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429 the hook.
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430 </para>
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431
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432 <para id="x_228">An executable hook is always run with its current
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433 directory set to a repository's root directory.
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434 </para>
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435
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436 <para id="x_229">Each hook parameter is passed in as an environment
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437 variable; the name is upper-cased, and prefixed with the
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438 string <quote><literal>HG_</literal></quote>.
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439 </para>
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440
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441 <para id="x_22a">With the exception of hook parameters, Mercurial does not
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442 set or modify any environment variables when running a hook.
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443 This is useful to remember if you are writing a site-wide hook
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444 that may be run by a number of different users with differing
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445 environment variables set. In multi-user situations, you
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446 should not rely on environment variables being set to the
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447 values you have in your environment when testing the hook.
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448 </para>
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449 </sect2>
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450
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451 <sect2>
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452 <title>Telling Mercurial to use an in-process hook</title>
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453
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454 <para id="x_22b">The <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> syntax
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455 for defining an in-process hook is slightly different than for
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456 an executable hook. The value of the hook must start with the
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457 text <quote><literal>python:</literal></quote>, and continue
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458 with the fully-qualified name of a callable object to use as
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459 the hook's value.
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460 </para>
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461
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462 <para id="x_22c">The module in which a hook lives is automatically imported
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463 when a hook is run. So long as you have the module name and
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464 <envar>PYTHONPATH</envar> right, it should <quote>just
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465 work</quote>.
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466 </para>
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467
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468 <para id="x_22d">The following <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>
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469 example snippet illustrates the syntax and meaning of the
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470 notions we just described.
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471 </para>
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472 <programlisting>[hooks]
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473 commit.example = python:mymodule.submodule.myhook</programlisting>
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474 <para id="x_22e">When Mercurial runs the <literal>commit.example</literal>
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475 hook, it imports <literal>mymodule.submodule</literal>, looks
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476 for the callable object named <literal>myhook</literal>, and
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477 calls it.
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478 </para>
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479 </sect2>
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480
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481 <sect2>
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482 <title>Writing an in-process hook</title>
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483
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484 <para id="x_22f">The simplest in-process hook does nothing, but illustrates
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485 the basic shape of the hook API:
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486 </para>
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487 <programlisting>def myhook(ui, repo, **kwargs):
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488 pass</programlisting>
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489 <para id="x_230">The first argument to a Python hook is always a <literal
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490 role="py-mod-mercurial.ui">ui</literal> object. The second
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491 is a repository object; at the moment, it is always an
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492 instance of <literal
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493 role="py-mod-mercurial.localrepo">localrepository</literal>.
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494 Following these two arguments are other keyword arguments.
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495 Which ones are passed in depends on the hook being called, but
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496 a hook can ignore arguments it doesn't care about by dropping
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497 them into a keyword argument dict, as with
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498 <literal>**kwargs</literal> above.
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499 </para>
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500
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501 </sect2>
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502 </sect1>
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503 <sect1>
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504 <title>Some hook examples</title>
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505
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506 <sect2>
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507 <title>Writing meaningful commit messages</title>
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508
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509 <para id="x_231">It's hard to imagine a useful commit message being very
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510 short. The simple <literal role="hook">pretxncommit</literal>
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511 hook of the example below will prevent you from committing a
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512 changeset with a message that is less than ten bytes long.
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513 </para>
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514
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515 &interaction.hook.msglen.go;
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516 </sect2>
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517
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518 <sect2>
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519 <title>Checking for trailing whitespace</title>
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520
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521 <para id="x_232">An interesting use of a commit-related hook is to help you
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522 to write cleaner code. A simple example of <quote>cleaner
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523 code</quote> is the dictum that a change should not add any
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524 new lines of text that contain <quote>trailing
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525 whitespace</quote>. Trailing whitespace is a series of
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526 space and tab characters at the end of a line of text. In
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527 most cases, trailing whitespace is unnecessary, invisible
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528 noise, but it is occasionally problematic, and people often
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529 prefer to get rid of it.
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530 </para>
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531
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532 <para id="x_233">You can use either the <literal
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533 role="hook">precommit</literal> or <literal
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534 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hook to tell whether you
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535 have a trailing whitespace problem. If you use the <literal
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536 role="hook">precommit</literal> hook, the hook will not know
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537 which files you are committing, so it will have to check every
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538 modified file in the repository for trailing white space. If
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539 you want to commit a change to just the file
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540 <filename>foo</filename>, but the file
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541 <filename>bar</filename> contains trailing whitespace, doing a
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542 check in the <literal role="hook">precommit</literal> hook
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543 will prevent you from committing <filename>foo</filename> due
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544 to the problem with <filename>bar</filename>. This doesn't
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545 seem right.
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546 </para>
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547
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548 <para id="x_234">Should you choose the <literal
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549 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hook, the check won't
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550 occur until just before the transaction for the commit
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551 completes. This will allow you to check for problems only the
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552 exact files that are being committed. However, if you entered
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553 the commit message interactively and the hook fails, the
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554 transaction will roll back; you'll have to re-enter the commit
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555 message after you fix the trailing whitespace and run <command
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556 role="hg-cmd">hg commit</command> again.
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557 </para>
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558
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559 &interaction.ch09-hook.ws.simple;
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560
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561 <para id="x_235">In this example, we introduce a simple <literal
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562 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hook that checks for
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563 trailing whitespace. This hook is short, but not very
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564 helpful. It exits with an error status if a change adds a
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565 line with trailing whitespace to any file, but does not print
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566 any information that might help us to identify the offending
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567 file or line. It also has the nice property of not paying
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568 attention to unmodified lines; only lines that introduce new
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569 trailing whitespace cause problems.
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570 </para>
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571
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572 &ch09-check_whitespace.py.lst;
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573
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574 <para id="x_236">The above version is much more complex, but also more
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575 useful. It parses a unified diff to see if any lines add
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576 trailing whitespace, and prints the name of the file and the
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577 line number of each such occurrence. Even better, if the
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578 change adds trailing whitespace, this hook saves the commit
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579 comment and prints the name of the save file before exiting
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580 and telling Mercurial to roll the transaction back, so you can
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581 use the <option role="hg-opt-commit">-l filename</option>
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582 option to <command role="hg-cmd">hg commit</command> to reuse
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583 the saved commit message once you've corrected the problem.
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584 </para>
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585
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586 &interaction.ch09-hook.ws.better;
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587
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588 <para id="x_237">As a final aside, note in the example above the
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589 use of <command>sed</command>'s in-place editing feature to
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590 get rid of trailing whitespace from a file. This is concise
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591 and useful enough that I will reproduce it here (using
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592 <command>perl</command> for good measure).</para>
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593 <programlisting>perl -pi -e 's,\s+$,,' filename</programlisting>
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594
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595 </sect2>
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596 </sect1>
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597 <sect1>
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598 <title>Bundled hooks</title>
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599
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600 <para id="x_238">Mercurial ships with several bundled hooks. You can find
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601 them in the <filename class="directory">hgext</filename>
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602 directory of a Mercurial source tree. If you are using a
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603 Mercurial binary package, the hooks will be located in the
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604 <filename class="directory">hgext</filename> directory of
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605 wherever your package installer put Mercurial.
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606 </para>
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607
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608 <sect2>
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609 <title><literal role="hg-ext">acl</literal>&emdash;access
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610 control for parts of a repository</title>
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611
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612 <para id="x_239">The <literal role="hg-ext">acl</literal> extension lets
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613 you control which remote users are allowed to push changesets
|
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614 to a networked server. You can protect any portion of a
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615 repository (including the entire repo), so that a specific
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616 remote user can push changes that do not affect the protected
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617 portion.
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618 </para>
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619
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620 <para id="x_23a">This extension implements access control based on the
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621 identity of the user performing a push,
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622 <emphasis>not</emphasis> on who committed the changesets
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623 they're pushing. It makes sense to use this hook only if you
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624 have a locked-down server environment that authenticates
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625 remote users, and you want to be sure that only specific users
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626 are allowed to push changes to that server.
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627 </para>
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628
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629 <sect3>
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630 <title>Configuring the <literal role="hook">acl</literal>
|
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631 hook</title>
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632
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633 <para id="x_23b">In order to manage incoming changesets, the <literal
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634 role="hg-ext">acl</literal> hook must be used as a
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635 <literal role="hook">pretxnchangegroup</literal> hook. This
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636 lets it see which files are modified by each incoming
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637 changeset, and roll back a group of changesets if they
|
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638 modify <quote>forbidden</quote> files. Example:
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639 </para>
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640 <programlisting>[hooks]
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641 pretxnchangegroup.acl = python:hgext.acl.hook</programlisting>
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642
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643 <para id="x_23c">The <literal role="hg-ext">acl</literal> extension is
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644 configured using three sections.
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645 </para>
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646
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647 <para id="x_23d">The <literal role="rc-acl">acl</literal> section has
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648 only one entry, <envar role="rc-item-acl">sources</envar>,
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649 which lists the sources of incoming changesets that the hook
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650 should pay attention to. You don't normally need to
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651 configure this section.
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652 </para>
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653 <itemizedlist>
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654 <listitem><para id="x_23e"><envar role="rc-item-acl">serve</envar>:
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655 Control incoming changesets that are arriving from a
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656 remote repository over http or ssh. This is the default
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657 value of <envar role="rc-item-acl">sources</envar>, and
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658 usually the only setting you'll need for this
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659 configuration item.
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660 </para>
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661 </listitem>
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662 <listitem><para id="x_23f"><envar role="rc-item-acl">pull</envar>:
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663 Control incoming changesets that are arriving via a pull
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664 from a local repository.
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665 </para>
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666 </listitem>
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667 <listitem><para id="x_240"><envar role="rc-item-acl">push</envar>:
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668 Control incoming changesets that are arriving via a push
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669 from a local repository.
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670 </para>
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671 </listitem>
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672 <listitem><para id="x_241"><envar role="rc-item-acl">bundle</envar>:
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673 Control incoming changesets that are arriving from
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674 another repository via a bundle.
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675 </para>
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676 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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677
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678 <para id="x_242">The <literal role="rc-acl.allow">acl.allow</literal>
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679 section controls the users that are allowed to add
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680 changesets to the repository. If this section is not
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681 present, all users that are not explicitly denied are
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682 allowed. If this section is present, all users that are not
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683 explicitly allowed are denied (so an empty section means
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684 that all users are denied).
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685 </para>
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686
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687 <para id="x_243">The <literal role="rc-acl.deny">acl.deny</literal>
|
bos@559
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688 section determines which users are denied from adding
|
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689 changesets to the repository. If this section is not
|
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690 present or is empty, no users are denied.
|
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691 </para>
|
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692
|
bos@584
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693 <para id="x_244">The syntaxes for the <literal
|
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|
694 role="rc-acl.allow">acl.allow</literal> and <literal
|
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|
695 role="rc-acl.deny">acl.deny</literal> sections are
|
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|
696 identical. On the left of each entry is a glob pattern that
|
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|
697 matches files or directories, relative to the root of the
|
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698 repository; on the right, a user name.
|
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|
699 </para>
|
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|
700
|
bos@584
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701 <para id="x_245">In the following example, the user
|
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|
702 <literal>docwriter</literal> can only push changes to the
|
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|
703 <filename class="directory">docs</filename> subtree of the
|
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704 repository, while <literal>intern</literal> can push changes
|
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|
705 to any file or directory except <filename
|
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|
706 class="directory">source/sensitive</filename>.
|
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|
707 </para>
|
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708 <programlisting>[acl.allow]
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bos@580
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709 docs/** = docwriter
|
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710 [acl.deny]
|
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711 source/sensitive/** = intern</programlisting>
|
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712
|
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713 </sect3>
|
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714 <sect3>
|
bos@559
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715 <title>Testing and troubleshooting</title>
|
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|
716
|
bos@584
|
717 <para id="x_246">If you want to test the <literal
|
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|
718 role="hg-ext">acl</literal> hook, run it with Mercurial's
|
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|
719 debugging output enabled. Since you'll probably be running
|
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720 it on a server where it's not convenient (or sometimes
|
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|
721 possible) to pass in the <option
|
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722 role="hg-opt-global">--debug</option> option, don't forget
|
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723 that you can enable debugging output in your <filename
|
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724 role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>:
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725 </para>
|
bos@580
|
726 <programlisting>[ui]
|
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727 debug = true</programlisting>
|
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728 <para id="x_247">With this enabled, the <literal
|
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729 role="hg-ext">acl</literal> hook will print enough
|
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|
730 information to let you figure out why it is allowing or
|
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|
731 forbidding pushes from specific users.
|
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|
732 </para>
|
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|
733
|
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734 </sect3> </sect2>
|
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|
735
|
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|
736 <sect2>
|
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|
737 <title><literal
|
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|
738 role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal>&emdash;integration with
|
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|
739 Bugzilla</title>
|
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|
740
|
bos@584
|
741 <para id="x_248">The <literal role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal> extension
|
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|
742 adds a comment to a Bugzilla bug whenever it finds a reference
|
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|
743 to that bug ID in a commit comment. You can install this hook
|
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|
744 on a shared server, so that any time a remote user pushes
|
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|
745 changes to this server, the hook gets run.
|
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|
746 </para>
|
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|
747
|
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|
748 <para id="x_249">It adds a comment to the bug that looks like this (you can
|
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749 configure the contents of the comment&emdash;see below):
|
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|
750 </para>
|
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|
751 <programlisting>Changeset aad8b264143a, made by Joe User
|
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|
752 <joe.user@domain.com> in the frobnitz repository, refers
|
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|
753 to this bug. For complete details, see
|
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|
754 http://hg.domain.com/frobnitz?cmd=changeset;node=aad8b264143a
|
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|
755 Changeset description: Fix bug 10483 by guarding against some
|
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|
756 NULL pointers</programlisting>
|
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|
757 <para id="x_24a">The value of this hook is that it automates the process of
|
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|
758 updating a bug any time a changeset refers to it. If you
|
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|
759 configure the hook properly, it makes it easy for people to
|
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|
760 browse straight from a Bugzilla bug to a changeset that refers
|
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|
761 to that bug.
|
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|
762 </para>
|
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|
763
|
bos@584
|
764 <para id="x_24b">You can use the code in this hook as a starting point for
|
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|
765 some more exotic Bugzilla integration recipes. Here are a few
|
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|
766 possibilities:
|
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|
767 </para>
|
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|
768 <itemizedlist>
|
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|
769 <listitem><para id="x_24c">Require that every changeset pushed to the
|
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|
770 server have a valid bug ID in its commit comment. In this
|
bos@559
|
771 case, you'd want to configure the hook as a <literal
|
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|
772 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hook. This would
|
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|
773 allow the hook to reject changes that didn't contain bug
|
bos@559
|
774 IDs.
|
bos@559
|
775 </para>
|
bos@559
|
776 </listitem>
|
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|
777 <listitem><para id="x_24d">Allow incoming changesets to automatically
|
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|
778 modify the <emphasis>state</emphasis> of a bug, as well as
|
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|
779 simply adding a comment. For example, the hook could
|
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|
780 recognise the string <quote>fixed bug 31337</quote> as
|
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|
781 indicating that it should update the state of bug 31337 to
|
bos@559
|
782 <quote>requires testing</quote>.
|
bos@559
|
783 </para>
|
bos@559
|
784 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
785
|
bos@559
|
786 <sect3 id="sec:hook:bugzilla:config">
|
bos@559
|
787 <title>Configuring the <literal role="hook">bugzilla</literal>
|
bos@559
|
788 hook</title>
|
bos@559
|
789
|
bos@584
|
790 <para id="x_24e">You should configure this hook in your server's
|
bos@580
|
791 <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> as an <literal
|
bos@559
|
792 role="hook">incoming</literal> hook, for example as
|
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|
793 follows:
|
bos@559
|
794 </para>
|
bos@580
|
795 <programlisting>[hooks]
|
bos@580
|
796 incoming.bugzilla = python:hgext.bugzilla.hook</programlisting>
|
bos@559
|
797
|
bos@584
|
798 <para id="x_24f">Because of the specialised nature of this hook, and
|
bos@559
|
799 because Bugzilla was not written with this kind of
|
bos@559
|
800 integration in mind, configuring this hook is a somewhat
|
bos@559
|
801 involved process.
|
bos@559
|
802 </para>
|
bos@559
|
803
|
bos@584
|
804 <para id="x_250">Before you begin, you must install the MySQL bindings
|
bos@559
|
805 for Python on the host(s) where you'll be running the hook.
|
bos@559
|
806 If this is not available as a binary package for your
|
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|
807 system, you can download it from
|
bos@559
|
808 <citation>web:mysql-python</citation>.
|
bos@559
|
809 </para>
|
bos@559
|
810
|
bos@584
|
811 <para id="x_251">Configuration information for this hook lives in the
|
bos@559
|
812 <literal role="rc-bugzilla">bugzilla</literal> section of
|
bos@580
|
813 your <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>.
|
bos@559
|
814 </para>
|
bos@559
|
815 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
816 <listitem><para id="x_252"><envar
|
bos@559
|
817 role="rc-item-bugzilla">version</envar>: The version
|
bos@559
|
818 of Bugzilla installed on the server. The database
|
bos@559
|
819 schema that Bugzilla uses changes occasionally, so this
|
bos@701
|
820 hook has to know exactly which schema to use.</para>
|
bos@559
|
821 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
822 <listitem><para id="x_253"><envar role="rc-item-bugzilla">host</envar>:
|
bos@559
|
823 The hostname of the MySQL server that stores your
|
bos@559
|
824 Bugzilla data. The database must be configured to allow
|
bos@559
|
825 connections from whatever host you are running the
|
bos@559
|
826 <literal role="hook">bugzilla</literal> hook on.
|
bos@559
|
827 </para>
|
bos@559
|
828 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
829 <listitem><para id="x_254"><envar role="rc-item-bugzilla">user</envar>:
|
bos@559
|
830 The username with which to connect to the MySQL server.
|
bos@559
|
831 The database must be configured to allow this user to
|
bos@559
|
832 connect from whatever host you are running the <literal
|
bos@559
|
833 role="hook">bugzilla</literal> hook on. This user
|
bos@559
|
834 must be able to access and modify Bugzilla tables. The
|
bos@559
|
835 default value of this item is <literal>bugs</literal>,
|
bos@559
|
836 which is the standard name of the Bugzilla user in a
|
bos@559
|
837 MySQL database.
|
bos@559
|
838 </para>
|
bos@559
|
839 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
840 <listitem><para id="x_255"><envar
|
bos@559
|
841 role="rc-item-bugzilla">password</envar>: The MySQL
|
bos@559
|
842 password for the user you configured above. This is
|
bos@559
|
843 stored as plain text, so you should make sure that
|
bos@559
|
844 unauthorised users cannot read the <filename
|
bos@580
|
845 role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> file where you
|
bos@559
|
846 store this information.
|
bos@559
|
847 </para>
|
bos@559
|
848 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
849 <listitem><para id="x_256"><envar role="rc-item-bugzilla">db</envar>:
|
bos@559
|
850 The name of the Bugzilla database on the MySQL server.
|
bos@559
|
851 The default value of this item is
|
bos@559
|
852 <literal>bugs</literal>, which is the standard name of
|
bos@559
|
853 the MySQL database where Bugzilla stores its data.
|
bos@559
|
854 </para>
|
bos@559
|
855 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
856 <listitem><para id="x_257"><envar
|
bos@559
|
857 role="rc-item-bugzilla">notify</envar>: If you want
|
bos@559
|
858 Bugzilla to send out a notification email to subscribers
|
bos@559
|
859 after this hook has added a comment to a bug, you will
|
bos@559
|
860 need this hook to run a command whenever it updates the
|
bos@559
|
861 database. The command to run depends on where you have
|
bos@559
|
862 installed Bugzilla, but it will typically look something
|
bos@559
|
863 like this, if you have Bugzilla installed in <filename
|
bos@559
|
864 class="directory">/var/www/html/bugzilla</filename>:
|
bos@559
|
865 </para>
|
bos@559
|
866 <programlisting>cd /var/www/html/bugzilla &&
|
bos@559
|
867 ./processmail %s nobody@nowhere.com</programlisting>
|
bos@559
|
868 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
869 <listitem><para id="x_258"> The Bugzilla
|
bos@559
|
870 <literal>processmail</literal> program expects to be
|
bos@559
|
871 given a bug ID (the hook replaces
|
bos@559
|
872 <quote><literal>%s</literal></quote> with the bug ID)
|
bos@559
|
873 and an email address. It also expects to be able to
|
bos@559
|
874 write to some files in the directory that it runs in.
|
bos@559
|
875 If Bugzilla and this hook are not installed on the same
|
bos@559
|
876 machine, you will need to find a way to run
|
bos@559
|
877 <literal>processmail</literal> on the server where
|
bos@559
|
878 Bugzilla is installed.
|
bos@559
|
879 </para>
|
bos@559
|
880 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
881
|
bos@559
|
882 </sect3>
|
bos@559
|
883 <sect3>
|
bos@559
|
884 <title>Mapping committer names to Bugzilla user names</title>
|
bos@559
|
885
|
bos@584
|
886 <para id="x_259">By default, the <literal
|
bos@559
|
887 role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal> hook tries to use the
|
bos@559
|
888 email address of a changeset's committer as the Bugzilla
|
bos@559
|
889 user name with which to update a bug. If this does not suit
|
bos@559
|
890 your needs, you can map committer email addresses to
|
bos@559
|
891 Bugzilla user names using a <literal
|
bos@559
|
892 role="rc-usermap">usermap</literal> section.
|
bos@559
|
893 </para>
|
bos@559
|
894
|
bos@584
|
895 <para id="x_25a">Each item in the <literal
|
bos@559
|
896 role="rc-usermap">usermap</literal> section contains an
|
bos@559
|
897 email address on the left, and a Bugzilla user name on the
|
bos@559
|
898 right.
|
bos@559
|
899 </para>
|
bos@580
|
900 <programlisting>[usermap]
|
bos@580
|
901 jane.user@example.com = jane</programlisting>
|
bos@584
|
902 <para id="x_25b">You can either keep the <literal
|
bos@559
|
903 role="rc-usermap">usermap</literal> data in a normal
|
bos@559
|
904 <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>, or tell the
|
bos@559
|
905 <literal role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal> hook to read the
|
bos@559
|
906 information from an external <filename>usermap</filename>
|
bos@559
|
907 file. In the latter case, you can store
|
bos@559
|
908 <filename>usermap</filename> data by itself in (for example)
|
bos@559
|
909 a user-modifiable repository. This makes it possible to let
|
bos@559
|
910 your users maintain their own <envar
|
bos@559
|
911 role="rc-item-bugzilla">usermap</envar> entries. The main
|
bos@580
|
912 <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> file might look
|
bos@559
|
913 like this:
|
bos@559
|
914 </para>
|
bos@580
|
915 <programlisting># regular hgrc file refers to external usermap file
|
bos@580
|
916 [bugzilla]
|
bos@580
|
917 usermap = /home/hg/repos/userdata/bugzilla-usermap.conf</programlisting>
|
bos@584
|
918 <para id="x_25c">While the <filename>usermap</filename> file that it
|
bos@559
|
919 refers to might look like this:
|
bos@559
|
920 </para>
|
bos@580
|
921 <programlisting># bugzilla-usermap.conf - inside a hg repository
|
bos@580
|
922 [usermap] stephanie@example.com = steph</programlisting>
|
bos@559
|
923
|
bos@559
|
924 </sect3>
|
bos@559
|
925 <sect3>
|
bos@559
|
926 <title>Configuring the text that gets added to a bug</title>
|
bos@559
|
927
|
bos@584
|
928 <para id="x_25d">You can configure the text that this hook adds as a
|
bos@559
|
929 comment; you specify it in the form of a Mercurial template.
|
bos@580
|
930 Several <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> entries
|
bos@559
|
931 (still in the <literal role="rc-bugzilla">bugzilla</literal>
|
bos@672
|
932 section) control this behavior.
|
bos@559
|
933 </para>
|
bos@559
|
934 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
935 <listitem><para id="x_25e"><literal>strip</literal>: The number of
|
bos@559
|
936 leading path elements to strip from a repository's path
|
bos@559
|
937 name to construct a partial path for a URL. For example,
|
bos@559
|
938 if the repositories on your server live under <filename
|
bos@559
|
939 class="directory">/home/hg/repos</filename>, and you
|
bos@559
|
940 have a repository whose path is <filename
|
bos@559
|
941 class="directory">/home/hg/repos/app/tests</filename>,
|
bos@559
|
942 then setting <literal>strip</literal> to
|
bos@559
|
943 <literal>4</literal> will give a partial path of
|
bos@559
|
944 <filename class="directory">app/tests</filename>. The
|
bos@559
|
945 hook will make this partial path available when
|
bos@559
|
946 expanding a template, as <literal>webroot</literal>.
|
bos@559
|
947 </para>
|
bos@559
|
948 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
949 <listitem><para id="x_25f"><literal>template</literal>: The text of the
|
bos@559
|
950 template to use. In addition to the usual
|
bos@559
|
951 changeset-related variables, this template can use
|
bos@559
|
952 <literal>hgweb</literal> (the value of the
|
bos@559
|
953 <literal>hgweb</literal> configuration item above) and
|
bos@559
|
954 <literal>webroot</literal> (the path constructed using
|
bos@559
|
955 <literal>strip</literal> above).
|
bos@559
|
956 </para>
|
bos@559
|
957 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
958
|
bos@584
|
959 <para id="x_260">In addition, you can add a <envar
|
bos@559
|
960 role="rc-item-web">baseurl</envar> item to the <literal
|
bos@559
|
961 role="rc-web">web</literal> section of your <filename
|
bos@580
|
962 role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>. The <literal
|
bos@559
|
963 role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal> hook will make this
|
bos@559
|
964 available when expanding a template, as the base string to
|
bos@559
|
965 use when constructing a URL that will let users browse from
|
bos@559
|
966 a Bugzilla comment to view a changeset. Example:
|
bos@559
|
967 </para>
|
bos@580
|
968 <programlisting>[web]
|
bos@580
|
969 baseurl = http://hg.domain.com/</programlisting>
|
bos@559
|
970
|
bos@584
|
971 <para id="x_261">Here is an example set of <literal
|
bos@559
|
972 role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal> hook config information.
|
bos@559
|
973 </para>
|
bos@580
|
974
|
bos@580
|
975 &ch10-bugzilla-config.lst;
|
bos@559
|
976
|
bos@559
|
977 </sect3>
|
bos@559
|
978 <sect3>
|
bos@559
|
979 <title>Testing and troubleshooting</title>
|
bos@559
|
980
|
bos@584
|
981 <para id="x_262">The most common problems with configuring the <literal
|
bos@559
|
982 role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal> hook relate to running
|
bos@559
|
983 Bugzilla's <filename>processmail</filename> script and
|
bos@559
|
984 mapping committer names to user names.
|
bos@559
|
985 </para>
|
bos@559
|
986
|
bos@592
|
987 <para id="x_263">Recall from <xref
|
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|
988 linkend="sec:hook:bugzilla:config"/> above that the user
|
bos@559
|
989 that runs the Mercurial process on the server is also the
|
bos@559
|
990 one that will run the <filename>processmail</filename>
|
bos@559
|
991 script. The <filename>processmail</filename> script
|
bos@559
|
992 sometimes causes Bugzilla to write to files in its
|
bos@559
|
993 configuration directory, and Bugzilla's configuration files
|
bos@559
|
994 are usually owned by the user that your web server runs
|
bos@559
|
995 under.
|
bos@559
|
996 </para>
|
bos@559
|
997
|
bos@584
|
998 <para id="x_264">You can cause <filename>processmail</filename> to be run
|
bos@559
|
999 with the suitable user's identity using the
|
bos@559
|
1000 <command>sudo</command> command. Here is an example entry
|
bos@559
|
1001 for a <filename>sudoers</filename> file.
|
bos@559
|
1002 </para>
|
bos@580
|
1003 <programlisting>hg_user = (httpd_user)
|
bos@580
|
1004 NOPASSWD: /var/www/html/bugzilla/processmail-wrapper %s</programlisting>
|
bos@584
|
1005 <para id="x_265">This allows the <literal>hg_user</literal> user to run a
|
bos@559
|
1006 <filename>processmail-wrapper</filename> program under the
|
bos@559
|
1007 identity of <literal>httpd_user</literal>.
|
bos@559
|
1008 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1009
|
bos@584
|
1010 <para id="x_266">This indirection through a wrapper script is necessary,
|
bos@559
|
1011 because <filename>processmail</filename> expects to be run
|
bos@559
|
1012 with its current directory set to wherever you installed
|
bos@559
|
1013 Bugzilla; you can't specify that kind of constraint in a
|
bos@559
|
1014 <filename>sudoers</filename> file. The contents of the
|
bos@559
|
1015 wrapper script are simple:
|
bos@559
|
1016 </para>
|
bos@580
|
1017 <programlisting>#!/bin/sh
|
bos@580
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1018 cd `dirname $0` && ./processmail "$1" nobody@example.com</programlisting>
|
bos@584
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1019 <para id="x_267">It doesn't seem to matter what email address you pass to
|
bos@559
|
1020 <filename>processmail</filename>.
|
bos@559
|
1021 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1022
|
bos@584
|
1023 <para id="x_268">If your <literal role="rc-usermap">usermap</literal> is
|
bos@559
|
1024 not set up correctly, users will see an error message from
|
bos@559
|
1025 the <literal role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal> hook when they
|
bos@559
|
1026 push changes to the server. The error message will look
|
bos@559
|
1027 like this:
|
bos@559
|
1028 </para>
|
bos@580
|
1029 <programlisting>cannot find bugzilla user id for john.q.public@example.com</programlisting>
|
bos@584
|
1030 <para id="x_269">What this means is that the committer's address,
|
bos@559
|
1031 <literal>john.q.public@example.com</literal>, is not a valid
|
bos@559
|
1032 Bugzilla user name, nor does it have an entry in your
|
bos@559
|
1033 <literal role="rc-usermap">usermap</literal> that maps it to
|
bos@559
|
1034 a valid Bugzilla user name.
|
bos@559
|
1035 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1036
|
bos@682
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1037 </sect3> </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1038
|
bos@559
|
1039 <sect2>
|
bos@559
|
1040 <title><literal role="hg-ext">notify</literal>&emdash;send email
|
bos@559
|
1041 notifications</title>
|
bos@559
|
1042
|
bos@584
|
1043 <para id="x_26a">Although Mercurial's built-in web server provides RSS
|
bos@559
|
1044 feeds of changes in every repository, many people prefer to
|
bos@559
|
1045 receive change notifications via email. The <literal
|
bos@559
|
1046 role="hg-ext">notify</literal> hook lets you send out
|
bos@559
|
1047 notifications to a set of email addresses whenever changesets
|
bos@559
|
1048 arrive that those subscribers are interested in.
|
bos@559
|
1049 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1050
|
bos@584
|
1051 <para id="x_26b">As with the <literal role="hg-ext">bugzilla</literal>
|
bos@559
|
1052 hook, the <literal role="hg-ext">notify</literal> hook is
|
bos@559
|
1053 template-driven, so you can customise the contents of the
|
bos@559
|
1054 notification messages that it sends.
|
bos@559
|
1055 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1056
|
bos@584
|
1057 <para id="x_26c">By default, the <literal role="hg-ext">notify</literal>
|
bos@559
|
1058 hook includes a diff of every changeset that it sends out; you
|
bos@559
|
1059 can limit the size of the diff, or turn this feature off
|
bos@559
|
1060 entirely. It is useful for letting subscribers review changes
|
bos@559
|
1061 immediately, rather than clicking to follow a URL.
|
bos@559
|
1062 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1063
|
bos@559
|
1064 <sect3>
|
bos@559
|
1065 <title>Configuring the <literal role="hg-ext">notify</literal>
|
bos@559
|
1066 hook</title>
|
bos@559
|
1067
|
bos@584
|
1068 <para id="x_26d">You can set up the <literal
|
bos@559
|
1069 role="hg-ext">notify</literal> hook to send one email
|
bos@559
|
1070 message per incoming changeset, or one per incoming group of
|
bos@559
|
1071 changesets (all those that arrived in a single pull or
|
bos@559
|
1072 push).
|
bos@559
|
1073 </para>
|
bos@580
|
1074 <programlisting>[hooks]
|
bos@580
|
1075 # send one email per group of changes
|
bos@580
|
1076 changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
|
bos@580
|
1077 # send one email per change
|
bos@580
|
1078 incoming.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook</programlisting>
|
bos@559
|
1079
|
bos@584
|
1080 <para id="x_26e">Configuration information for this hook lives in the
|
bos@559
|
1081 <literal role="rc-notify">notify</literal> section of a
|
bos@580
|
1082 <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> file.
|
bos@559
|
1083 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1084 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1085 <listitem><para id="x_26f"><envar role="rc-item-notify">test</envar>:
|
bos@559
|
1086 By default, this hook does not send out email at all;
|
bos@559
|
1087 instead, it prints the message that it
|
bos@559
|
1088 <emphasis>would</emphasis> send. Set this item to
|
bos@559
|
1089 <literal>false</literal> to allow email to be sent. The
|
bos@559
|
1090 reason that sending of email is turned off by default is
|
bos@559
|
1091 that it takes several tries to configure this extension
|
bos@559
|
1092 exactly as you would like, and it would be bad form to
|
bos@559
|
1093 spam subscribers with a number of <quote>broken</quote>
|
bos@559
|
1094 notifications while you debug your configuration.
|
bos@559
|
1095 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1096 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1097 <listitem><para id="x_270"><envar role="rc-item-notify">config</envar>:
|
bos@559
|
1098 The path to a configuration file that contains
|
bos@559
|
1099 subscription information. This is kept separate from
|
bos@580
|
1100 the main <filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename> so
|
bos@559
|
1101 that you can maintain it in a repository of its own.
|
bos@559
|
1102 People can then clone that repository, update their
|
bos@559
|
1103 subscriptions, and push the changes back to your server.
|
bos@559
|
1104 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1105 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1106 <listitem><para id="x_271"><envar role="rc-item-notify">strip</envar>:
|
bos@559
|
1107 The number of leading path separator characters to strip
|
bos@559
|
1108 from a repository's path, when deciding whether a
|
bos@559
|
1109 repository has subscribers. For example, if the
|
bos@559
|
1110 repositories on your server live in <filename
|
bos@559
|
1111 class="directory">/home/hg/repos</filename>, and
|
bos@559
|
1112 <literal role="hg-ext">notify</literal> is considering a
|
bos@559
|
1113 repository named <filename
|
bos@559
|
1114 class="directory">/home/hg/repos/shared/test</filename>,
|
bos@559
|
1115 setting <envar role="rc-item-notify">strip</envar> to
|
bos@559
|
1116 <literal>4</literal> will cause <literal
|
bos@559
|
1117 role="hg-ext">notify</literal> to trim the path it
|
bos@559
|
1118 considers down to <filename
|
bos@559
|
1119 class="directory">shared/test</filename>, and it will
|
bos@559
|
1120 match subscribers against that.
|
bos@559
|
1121 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1122 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1123 <listitem><para id="x_272"><envar
|
bos@559
|
1124 role="rc-item-notify">template</envar>: The template
|
bos@559
|
1125 text to use when sending messages. This specifies both
|
bos@559
|
1126 the contents of the message header and its body.
|
bos@559
|
1127 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1128 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1129 <listitem><para id="x_273"><envar
|
bos@559
|
1130 role="rc-item-notify">maxdiff</envar>: The maximum
|
bos@559
|
1131 number of lines of diff data to append to the end of a
|
bos@559
|
1132 message. If a diff is longer than this, it is
|
bos@559
|
1133 truncated. By default, this is set to 300. Set this to
|
bos@559
|
1134 <literal>0</literal> to omit diffs from notification
|
bos@559
|
1135 emails.
|
bos@559
|
1136 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1137 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1138 <listitem><para id="x_274"><envar
|
bos@559
|
1139 role="rc-item-notify">sources</envar>: A list of
|
bos@559
|
1140 sources of changesets to consider. This lets you limit
|
bos@559
|
1141 <literal role="hg-ext">notify</literal> to only sending
|
bos@559
|
1142 out email about changes that remote users pushed into
|
bos@592
|
1143 this repository via a server, for example. See
|
bos@592
|
1144 <xref linkend="sec:hook:sources"/> for the sources you
|
bos@592
|
1145 can specify here.
|
bos@559
|
1146 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1147 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1148
|
bos@584
|
1149 <para id="x_275">If you set the <envar role="rc-item-web">baseurl</envar>
|
bos@559
|
1150 item in the <literal role="rc-web">web</literal> section,
|
bos@559
|
1151 you can use it in a template; it will be available as
|
bos@559
|
1152 <literal>webroot</literal>.
|
bos@559
|
1153 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1154
|
bos@584
|
1155 <para id="x_276">Here is an example set of <literal
|
bos@559
|
1156 role="hg-ext">notify</literal> configuration information.
|
bos@559
|
1157 </para>
|
bos@580
|
1158
|
bos@580
|
1159 &ch10-notify-config.lst;
|
bos@559
|
1160
|
bos@584
|
1161 <para id="x_277">This will produce a message that looks like the
|
bos@559
|
1162 following:
|
bos@559
|
1163 </para>
|
bos@580
|
1164
|
bos@580
|
1165 &ch10-notify-config-mail.lst;
|
bos@559
|
1166
|
bos@559
|
1167 </sect3>
|
bos@559
|
1168 <sect3>
|
bos@559
|
1169 <title>Testing and troubleshooting</title>
|
bos@559
|
1170
|
bos@584
|
1171 <para id="x_278">Do not forget that by default, the <literal
|
ori@561
|
1172 role="hg-ext">notify</literal> extension <emphasis>will not
|
ori@561
|
1173 send any mail</emphasis> until you explicitly configure it to do so,
|
bos@559
|
1174 by setting <envar role="rc-item-notify">test</envar> to
|
bos@559
|
1175 <literal>false</literal>. Until you do that, it simply
|
bos@559
|
1176 prints the message it <emphasis>would</emphasis> send.
|
bos@559
|
1177 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1178
|
bos@559
|
1179 </sect3>
|
bos@559
|
1180 </sect2>
|
bos@559
|
1181 </sect1>
|
bos@559
|
1182 <sect1 id="sec:hook:ref">
|
bos@559
|
1183 <title>Information for writers of hooks</title>
|
bos@559
|
1184
|
bos@559
|
1185 <sect2>
|
bos@559
|
1186 <title>In-process hook execution</title>
|
bos@559
|
1187
|
bos@584
|
1188 <para id="x_279">An in-process hook is called with arguments of the
|
bos@559
|
1189 following form:
|
bos@559
|
1190 </para>
|
bos@580
|
1191 <programlisting>def myhook(ui, repo, **kwargs): pass</programlisting>
|
bos@584
|
1192 <para id="x_27a">The <literal>ui</literal> parameter is a <literal
|
bos@559
|
1193 role="py-mod-mercurial.ui">ui</literal> object. The
|
bos@559
|
1194 <literal>repo</literal> parameter is a <literal
|
bos@559
|
1195 role="py-mod-mercurial.localrepo">localrepository</literal>
|
bos@559
|
1196 object. The names and values of the
|
bos@559
|
1197 <literal>**kwargs</literal> parameters depend on the hook
|
bos@559
|
1198 being invoked, with the following common features:
|
bos@559
|
1199 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1200 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1201 <listitem><para id="x_27b">If a parameter is named
|
bos@559
|
1202 <literal>node</literal> or <literal>parentN</literal>, it
|
bos@559
|
1203 will contain a hexadecimal changeset ID. The empty string
|
bos@559
|
1204 is used to represent <quote>null changeset ID</quote>
|
bos@559
|
1205 instead of a string of zeroes.
|
bos@559
|
1206 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1207 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1208 <listitem><para id="x_27c">If a parameter is named
|
bos@559
|
1209 <literal>url</literal>, it will contain the URL of a
|
bos@559
|
1210 remote repository, if that can be determined.
|
bos@559
|
1211 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1212 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1213 <listitem><para id="x_27d">Boolean-valued parameters are represented as
|
bos@559
|
1214 Python <literal>bool</literal> objects.
|
bos@559
|
1215 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1216 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1217
|
bos@584
|
1218 <para id="x_27e">An in-process hook is called without a change to the
|
bos@559
|
1219 process's working directory (unlike external hooks, which are
|
bos@559
|
1220 run in the root of the repository). It must not change the
|
bos@559
|
1221 process's working directory, or it will cause any calls it
|
bos@559
|
1222 makes into the Mercurial API to fail.
|
bos@559
|
1223 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1224
|
bos@584
|
1225 <para id="x_27f">If a hook returns a boolean <quote>false</quote> value, it
|
bos@559
|
1226 is considered to have succeeded. If it returns a boolean
|
bos@559
|
1227 <quote>true</quote> value or raises an exception, it is
|
bos@559
|
1228 considered to have failed. A useful way to think of the
|
bos@559
|
1229 calling convention is <quote>tell me if you fail</quote>.
|
bos@559
|
1230 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1231
|
bos@584
|
1232 <para id="x_280">Note that changeset IDs are passed into Python hooks as
|
bos@559
|
1233 hexadecimal strings, not the binary hashes that Mercurial's
|
bos@559
|
1234 APIs normally use. To convert a hash from hex to binary, use
|
bos@580
|
1235 the <literal>bin</literal> function.
|
bos@559
|
1236 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1237 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1238
|
bos@559
|
1239 <sect2>
|
bos@559
|
1240 <title>External hook execution</title>
|
bos@559
|
1241
|
bos@584
|
1242 <para id="x_281">An external hook is passed to the shell of the user
|
bos@559
|
1243 running Mercurial. Features of that shell, such as variable
|
bos@559
|
1244 substitution and command redirection, are available. The hook
|
bos@559
|
1245 is run in the root directory of the repository (unlike
|
bos@559
|
1246 in-process hooks, which are run in the same directory that
|
bos@559
|
1247 Mercurial was run in).
|
bos@559
|
1248 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1249
|
bos@584
|
1250 <para id="x_282">Hook parameters are passed to the hook as environment
|
bos@559
|
1251 variables. Each environment variable's name is converted in
|
bos@559
|
1252 upper case and prefixed with the string
|
bos@559
|
1253 <quote><literal>HG_</literal></quote>. For example, if the
|
bos@559
|
1254 name of a parameter is <quote><literal>node</literal></quote>,
|
bos@559
|
1255 the name of the environment variable representing that
|
bos@559
|
1256 parameter will be <quote><literal>HG_NODE</literal></quote>.
|
bos@559
|
1257 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1258
|
bos@584
|
1259 <para id="x_283">A boolean parameter is represented as the string
|
bos@559
|
1260 <quote><literal>1</literal></quote> for <quote>true</quote>,
|
bos@559
|
1261 <quote><literal>0</literal></quote> for <quote>false</quote>.
|
bos@559
|
1262 If an environment variable is named <envar>HG_NODE</envar>,
|
bos@559
|
1263 <envar>HG_PARENT1</envar> or <envar>HG_PARENT2</envar>, it
|
bos@559
|
1264 contains a changeset ID represented as a hexadecimal string.
|
bos@559
|
1265 The empty string is used to represent <quote>null changeset
|
bos@559
|
1266 ID</quote> instead of a string of zeroes. If an environment
|
bos@559
|
1267 variable is named <envar>HG_URL</envar>, it will contain the
|
bos@559
|
1268 URL of a remote repository, if that can be determined.
|
bos@559
|
1269 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1270
|
bos@584
|
1271 <para id="x_284">If a hook exits with a status of zero, it is considered to
|
bos@559
|
1272 have succeeded. If it exits with a non-zero status, it is
|
bos@559
|
1273 considered to have failed.
|
bos@559
|
1274 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1275 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1276
|
bos@559
|
1277 <sect2>
|
bos@559
|
1278 <title>Finding out where changesets come from</title>
|
bos@559
|
1279
|
bos@584
|
1280 <para id="x_285">A hook that involves the transfer of changesets between a
|
bos@559
|
1281 local repository and another may be able to find out
|
bos@559
|
1282 information about the <quote>far side</quote>. Mercurial
|
bos@559
|
1283 knows <emphasis>how</emphasis> changes are being transferred,
|
bos@559
|
1284 and in many cases <emphasis>where</emphasis> they are being
|
bos@559
|
1285 transferred to or from.
|
bos@559
|
1286 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1287
|
bos@559
|
1288 <sect3 id="sec:hook:sources">
|
bos@559
|
1289 <title>Sources of changesets</title>
|
bos@559
|
1290
|
bos@584
|
1291 <para id="x_286">Mercurial will tell a hook what means are, or were, used
|
bos@559
|
1292 to transfer changesets between repositories. This is
|
bos@559
|
1293 provided by Mercurial in a Python parameter named
|
bos@559
|
1294 <literal>source</literal>, or an environment variable named
|
bos@559
|
1295 <envar>HG_SOURCE</envar>.
|
bos@559
|
1296 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1297
|
bos@559
|
1298 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1299 <listitem><para id="x_287"><literal>serve</literal>: Changesets are
|
bos@559
|
1300 transferred to or from a remote repository over http or
|
bos@559
|
1301 ssh.
|
bos@559
|
1302 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1303 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1304 <listitem><para id="x_288"><literal>pull</literal>: Changesets are
|
bos@559
|
1305 being transferred via a pull from one repository into
|
bos@559
|
1306 another.
|
bos@559
|
1307 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1308 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1309 <listitem><para id="x_289"><literal>push</literal>: Changesets are
|
bos@559
|
1310 being transferred via a push from one repository into
|
bos@559
|
1311 another.
|
bos@559
|
1312 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1313 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1314 <listitem><para id="x_28a"><literal>bundle</literal>: Changesets are
|
bos@559
|
1315 being transferred to or from a bundle.
|
bos@559
|
1316 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1317 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1318 </sect3>
|
bos@682
|
1319
|
bos@559
|
1320 <sect3 id="sec:hook:url">
|
bos@559
|
1321 <title>Where changes are going&emdash;remote repository
|
bos@559
|
1322 URLs</title>
|
bos@559
|
1323
|
bos@584
|
1324 <para id="x_28b">When possible, Mercurial will tell a hook the location
|
bos@559
|
1325 of the <quote>far side</quote> of an activity that transfers
|
bos@559
|
1326 changeset data between repositories. This is provided by
|
bos@559
|
1327 Mercurial in a Python parameter named
|
bos@559
|
1328 <literal>url</literal>, or an environment variable named
|
bos@559
|
1329 <envar>HG_URL</envar>.
|
bos@559
|
1330 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1331
|
bos@584
|
1332 <para id="x_28c">This information is not always known. If a hook is
|
bos@559
|
1333 invoked in a repository that is being served via http or
|
bos@559
|
1334 ssh, Mercurial cannot tell where the remote repository is,
|
bos@559
|
1335 but it may know where the client is connecting from. In
|
bos@559
|
1336 such cases, the URL will take one of the following forms:
|
bos@559
|
1337 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1338 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1339 <listitem><para id="x_28d"><literal>remote:ssh:1.2.3.4</literal>&emdash;remote
|
bos@559
|
1340 ssh client, at the IP address
|
bos@559
|
1341 <literal>1.2.3.4</literal>.
|
bos@559
|
1342 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1343 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1344 <listitem><para id="x_28e"><literal>remote:http:1.2.3.4</literal>&emdash;remote
|
bos@559
|
1345 http client, at the IP address
|
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|
1346 <literal>1.2.3.4</literal>. If the client is using SSL,
|
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|
1347 this will be of the form
|
bos@559
|
1348 <literal>remote:https:1.2.3.4</literal>.
|
bos@559
|
1349 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1350 </listitem>
|
bos@584
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1351 <listitem><para id="x_28f">Empty&emdash;no information could be
|
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|
1352 discovered about the remote client.
|
bos@559
|
1353 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1354 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1355 </sect3>
|
bos@559
|
1356 </sect2>
|
bos@559
|
1357 </sect1>
|
bos@559
|
1358 <sect1>
|
bos@559
|
1359 <title>Hook reference</title>
|
bos@559
|
1360
|
bos@559
|
1361 <sect2 id="sec:hook:changegroup">
|
bos@559
|
1362 <title><literal role="hook">changegroup</literal>&emdash;after
|
bos@559
|
1363 remote changesets added</title>
|
bos@559
|
1364
|
bos@584
|
1365 <para id="x_290">This hook is run after a group of pre-existing changesets
|
bos@559
|
1366 has been added to the repository, for example via a <command
|
bos@559
|
1367 role="hg-cmd">hg pull</command> or <command role="hg-cmd">hg
|
bos@559
|
1368 unbundle</command>. This hook is run once per operation
|
bos@559
|
1369 that added one or more changesets. This is in contrast to the
|
bos@559
|
1370 <literal role="hook">incoming</literal> hook, which is run
|
bos@559
|
1371 once per changeset, regardless of whether the changesets
|
bos@559
|
1372 arrive in a group.
|
bos@559
|
1373 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1374
|
bos@584
|
1375 <para id="x_291">Some possible uses for this hook include kicking off an
|
bos@559
|
1376 automated build or test of the added changesets, updating a
|
bos@559
|
1377 bug database, or notifying subscribers that a repository
|
bos@559
|
1378 contains new changes.
|
bos@559
|
1379 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1380
|
bos@584
|
1381 <para id="x_292">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1382 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1383 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1384 <listitem><para id="x_293"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
bos@559
|
1385 changeset ID of the first changeset in the group that was
|
bos@559
|
1386 added. All changesets between this and
|
bos@580
|
1387 <literal role="tag">tip</literal>, inclusive, were added by a single
|
bos@580
|
1388 <command role="hg-cmd">hg pull</command>, <command
|
bos@559
|
1389 role="hg-cmd">hg push</command> or <command
|
bos@559
|
1390 role="hg-cmd">hg unbundle</command>.
|
bos@559
|
1391 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1392 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1393 <listitem><para id="x_294"><literal>source</literal>: A
|
bos@592
|
1394 string. The source of these changes. See <xref
|
bos@559
|
1395 linkend="sec:hook:sources"/> for details.
|
bos@559
|
1396 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1397 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1398 <listitem><para id="x_295"><literal>url</literal>: A URL. The
|
bos@592
|
1399 location of the remote repository, if known. See <xref
|
bos@592
|
1400 linkend="sec:hook:url"/> for more information.
|
bos@559
|
1401 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1402 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1403
|
bos@592
|
1404 <para id="x_296">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1405 role="hook">incoming</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1406 linkend="sec:hook:incoming"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1407 role="hook">prechangegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1408 linkend="sec:hook:prechangegroup"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1409 role="hook">pretxnchangegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1410 linkend="sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1411 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1412 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1413
|
bos@559
|
1414 <sect2 id="sec:hook:commit">
|
bos@559
|
1415 <title><literal role="hook">commit</literal>&emdash;after a new
|
bos@559
|
1416 changeset is created</title>
|
bos@559
|
1417
|
bos@584
|
1418 <para id="x_297">This hook is run after a new changeset has been created.
|
bos@584
|
1419 </para>
|
bos@584
|
1420
|
bos@584
|
1421 <para id="x_298">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1422 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1423 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1424 <listitem><para id="x_299"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
bos@559
|
1425 changeset ID of the newly committed changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1426 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1427 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1428 <listitem><para id="x_29a"><literal>parent1</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1429 The changeset ID of the first parent of the newly
|
bos@559
|
1430 committed changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1431 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1432 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1433 <listitem><para id="x_29b"><literal>parent2</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1434 The changeset ID of the second parent of the newly
|
bos@559
|
1435 committed changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1436 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1437 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1438
|
bos@592
|
1439 <para id="x_29c">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1440 role="hook">precommit</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1441 linkend="sec:hook:precommit"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1442 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1443 linkend="sec:hook:pretxncommit"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1444 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1445 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1446
|
bos@559
|
1447 <sect2 id="sec:hook:incoming">
|
bos@559
|
1448 <title><literal role="hook">incoming</literal>&emdash;after one
|
bos@559
|
1449 remote changeset is added</title>
|
bos@559
|
1450
|
bos@584
|
1451 <para id="x_29d">This hook is run after a pre-existing changeset has been
|
bos@559
|
1452 added to the repository, for example via a <command
|
bos@559
|
1453 role="hg-cmd">hg push</command>. If a group of changesets
|
bos@559
|
1454 was added in a single operation, this hook is called once for
|
bos@559
|
1455 each added changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1456 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1457
|
bos@592
|
1458 <para id="x_29e">You can use this hook for the same purposes as
|
bos@592
|
1459 the <literal role="hook">changegroup</literal> hook (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1460 linkend="sec:hook:changegroup"/>); it's simply more
|
bos@592
|
1461 convenient sometimes to run a hook once per group of
|
bos@559
|
1462 changesets, while other times it's handier once per changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1463 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1464
|
bos@584
|
1465 <para id="x_29f">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1466 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1467 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1468 <listitem><para id="x_2a0"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
bos@559
|
1469 ID of the newly added changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1470 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1471 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1472 <listitem><para id="x_2a1"><literal>source</literal>: A
|
bos@592
|
1473 string. The source of these changes. See <xref
|
bos@559
|
1474 linkend="sec:hook:sources"/> for details.
|
bos@559
|
1475 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1476 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1477 <listitem><para id="x_2a2"><literal>url</literal>: A URL. The
|
bos@592
|
1478 location of the remote repository, if known. See <xref
|
bos@592
|
1479 linkend="sec:hook:url"/> for more information.
|
bos@559
|
1480 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1481 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1482
|
bos@592
|
1483 <para id="x_2a3">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1484 role="hook">changegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1485 linkend="sec:hook:changegroup"/>) <literal
|
bos@592
|
1486 role="hook">prechangegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1487 linkend="sec:hook:prechangegroup"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1488 role="hook">pretxnchangegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1489 linkend="sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1490 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1491 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1492
|
bos@559
|
1493 <sect2 id="sec:hook:outgoing">
|
bos@559
|
1494 <title><literal role="hook">outgoing</literal>&emdash;after
|
bos@559
|
1495 changesets are propagated</title>
|
bos@559
|
1496
|
bos@584
|
1497 <para id="x_2a4">This hook is run after a group of changesets has been
|
bos@559
|
1498 propagated out of this repository, for example by a <command
|
bos@559
|
1499 role="hg-cmd">hg push</command> or <command role="hg-cmd">hg
|
bos@559
|
1500 bundle</command> command.
|
bos@559
|
1501 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1502
|
bos@584
|
1503 <para id="x_2a5">One possible use for this hook is to notify administrators
|
bos@559
|
1504 that changes have been pulled.
|
bos@559
|
1505 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1506
|
bos@584
|
1507 <para id="x_2a6">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1508 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1509 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1510 <listitem><para id="x_2a7"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
bos@559
|
1511 changeset ID of the first changeset of the group that was
|
bos@559
|
1512 sent.
|
bos@559
|
1513 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1514 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1515 <listitem><para id="x_2a8"><literal>source</literal>: A string. The
|
bos@592
|
1516 source of the of the operation (see <xref
|
bos@559
|
1517 linkend="sec:hook:sources"/>). If a remote
|
bos@559
|
1518 client pulled changes from this repository,
|
bos@559
|
1519 <literal>source</literal> will be
|
bos@559
|
1520 <literal>serve</literal>. If the client that obtained
|
bos@559
|
1521 changes from this repository was local,
|
bos@559
|
1522 <literal>source</literal> will be
|
bos@559
|
1523 <literal>bundle</literal>, <literal>pull</literal>, or
|
bos@559
|
1524 <literal>push</literal>, depending on the operation the
|
bos@559
|
1525 client performed.
|
bos@559
|
1526 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1527 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1528 <listitem><para id="x_2a9"><literal>url</literal>: A URL. The
|
bos@592
|
1529 location of the remote repository, if known. See <xref
|
bos@592
|
1530 linkend="sec:hook:url"/> for more information.
|
bos@559
|
1531 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1532 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1533
|
bos@592
|
1534 <para id="x_2aa">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1535 role="hook">preoutgoing</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1536 linkend="sec:hook:preoutgoing"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1537 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1538 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1539
|
bos@559
|
1540 <sect2 id="sec:hook:prechangegroup">
|
bos@559
|
1541 <title><literal
|
bos@559
|
1542 role="hook">prechangegroup</literal>&emdash;before starting
|
bos@559
|
1543 to add remote changesets</title>
|
bos@559
|
1544
|
bos@584
|
1545 <para id="x_2ab">This controlling hook is run before Mercurial begins to
|
bos@559
|
1546 add a group of changesets from another repository.
|
bos@559
|
1547 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1548
|
bos@584
|
1549 <para id="x_2ac">This hook does not have any information about the
|
bos@559
|
1550 changesets to be added, because it is run before transmission
|
bos@559
|
1551 of those changesets is allowed to begin. If this hook fails,
|
bos@559
|
1552 the changesets will not be transmitted.
|
bos@559
|
1553 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1554
|
bos@584
|
1555 <para id="x_2ad">One use for this hook is to prevent external changes from
|
bos@559
|
1556 being added to a repository. For example, you could use this
|
bos@559
|
1557 to <quote>freeze</quote> a server-hosted branch temporarily or
|
bos@559
|
1558 permanently so that users cannot push to it, while still
|
bos@559
|
1559 allowing a local administrator to modify the repository.
|
bos@559
|
1560 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1561
|
bos@584
|
1562 <para id="x_2ae">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1563 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1564 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1565 <listitem><para id="x_2af"><literal>source</literal>: A string. The
|
bos@592
|
1566 source of these changes. See <xref
|
bos@559
|
1567 linkend="sec:hook:sources"/> for details.
|
bos@559
|
1568 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1569 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1570 <listitem><para id="x_2b0"><literal>url</literal>: A URL. The
|
bos@592
|
1571 location of the remote repository, if known. See <xref
|
bos@592
|
1572 linkend="sec:hook:url"/> for more information.
|
bos@559
|
1573 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1574 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1575
|
bos@592
|
1576 <para id="x_2b1">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1577 role="hook">changegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1578 linkend="sec:hook:changegroup"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1579 role="hook">incoming</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1580 linkend="sec:hook:incoming"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1581 role="hook">pretxnchangegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1582 linkend="sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1583 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1584 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1585
|
bos@559
|
1586 <sect2 id="sec:hook:precommit">
|
bos@559
|
1587 <title><literal role="hook">precommit</literal>&emdash;before
|
bos@559
|
1588 starting to commit a changeset</title>
|
bos@559
|
1589
|
bos@584
|
1590 <para id="x_2b2">This hook is run before Mercurial begins to commit a new
|
bos@559
|
1591 changeset. It is run before Mercurial has any of the metadata
|
bos@559
|
1592 for the commit, such as the files to be committed, the commit
|
bos@559
|
1593 message, or the commit date.
|
bos@559
|
1594 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1595
|
bos@584
|
1596 <para id="x_2b3">One use for this hook is to disable the ability to commit
|
bos@559
|
1597 new changesets, while still allowing incoming changesets.
|
bos@559
|
1598 Another is to run a build or test, and only allow the commit
|
bos@559
|
1599 to begin if the build or test succeeds.
|
bos@559
|
1600 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1601
|
bos@584
|
1602 <para id="x_2b4">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1603 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1604 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1605 <listitem><para id="x_2b5"><literal>parent1</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1606 The changeset ID of the first parent of the working
|
bos@559
|
1607 directory.
|
bos@559
|
1608 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1609 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1610 <listitem><para id="x_2b6"><literal>parent2</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1611 The changeset ID of the second parent of the working
|
bos@559
|
1612 directory.
|
bos@559
|
1613 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1614 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1615 <para id="x_2b7">If the commit proceeds, the parents of the working
|
bos@559
|
1616 directory will become the parents of the new changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1617 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1618
|
bos@592
|
1619 <para id="x_2b8">See also: <literal role="hook">commit</literal>
|
bos@592
|
1620 (<xref linkend="sec:hook:commit"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1621 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1622 linkend="sec:hook:pretxncommit"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1623 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1624 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1625
|
bos@559
|
1626 <sect2 id="sec:hook:preoutgoing">
|
bos@559
|
1627 <title><literal role="hook">preoutgoing</literal>&emdash;before
|
bos@559
|
1628 starting to propagate changesets</title>
|
bos@559
|
1629
|
bos@584
|
1630 <para id="x_2b9">This hook is invoked before Mercurial knows the identities
|
bos@559
|
1631 of the changesets to be transmitted.
|
bos@559
|
1632 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1633
|
bos@584
|
1634 <para id="x_2ba">One use for this hook is to prevent changes from being
|
bos@559
|
1635 transmitted to another repository.
|
bos@559
|
1636 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1637
|
bos@584
|
1638 <para id="x_2bb">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1639 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1640 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@592
|
1641 <listitem><para id="x_2bc"><literal>source</literal>: A
|
bos@592
|
1642 string. The source of the operation that is attempting to
|
bos@592
|
1643 obtain changes from this repository (see <xref
|
bos@559
|
1644 linkend="sec:hook:sources"/>). See the documentation
|
bos@559
|
1645 for the <literal>source</literal> parameter to the
|
bos@592
|
1646 <literal role="hook">outgoing</literal> hook, in
|
bos@559
|
1647 <xref linkend="sec:hook:outgoing"/>, for possible values
|
bos@592
|
1648 of this parameter.
|
bos@592
|
1649 </para>
|
bos@592
|
1650 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1651 <listitem><para id="x_2bd"><literal>url</literal>: A URL. The
|
bos@592
|
1652 location of the remote repository, if known. See <xref
|
bos@592
|
1653 linkend="sec:hook:url"/> for more information.
|
bos@559
|
1654 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1655 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1656
|
bos@592
|
1657 <para id="x_2be">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1658 role="hook">outgoing</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1659 linkend="sec:hook:outgoing"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1660 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1661 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1662
|
bos@559
|
1663 <sect2 id="sec:hook:pretag">
|
bos@559
|
1664 <title><literal role="hook">pretag</literal>&emdash;before
|
bos@559
|
1665 tagging a changeset</title>
|
bos@559
|
1666
|
bos@584
|
1667 <para id="x_2bf">This controlling hook is run before a tag is created. If
|
bos@559
|
1668 the hook succeeds, creation of the tag proceeds. If the hook
|
bos@559
|
1669 fails, the tag is not created.
|
bos@559
|
1670 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1671
|
bos@584
|
1672 <para id="x_2c0">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1673 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1674 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1675 <listitem><para id="x_2c1"><literal>local</literal>: A boolean. Whether
|
bos@559
|
1676 the tag is local to this repository instance (i.e. stored
|
bos@559
|
1677 in <filename role="special">.hg/localtags</filename>) or
|
bos@559
|
1678 managed by Mercurial (stored in <filename
|
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1679 role="special">.hgtags</filename>).
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1680 </para>
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1681 </listitem>
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1682 <listitem><para id="x_2c2"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
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1683 ID of the changeset to be tagged.
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1684 </para>
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1685 </listitem>
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1686 <listitem><para id="x_2c3"><literal>tag</literal>: A string. The name of
|
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1687 the tag to be created.
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1688 </para>
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1689 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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1690
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1691 <para id="x_2c4">If the tag to be created is
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1692 revision-controlled, the <literal
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1693 role="hook">precommit</literal> and <literal
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1694 role="hook">pretxncommit</literal> hooks (<xref
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1695 linkend="sec:hook:commit"/> and <xref
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1696 linkend="sec:hook:pretxncommit"/>) will also be run.
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1697 </para>
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1698
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1699 <para id="x_2c5">See also: <literal role="hook">tag</literal>
|
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1700 (<xref linkend="sec:hook:tag"/>)
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1701 </para>
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bos@559
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1702 </sect2>
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1703
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bos@559
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1704 <sect2 id="sec:hook:pretxnchangegroup">
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1705 <title><literal
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1706 role="hook">pretxnchangegroup</literal>&emdash;before
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bos@559
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1707 completing addition of remote changesets</title>
|
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1708
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bos@584
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1709 <para id="x_2c6">This controlling hook is run before a
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1710 transaction&emdash;that manages the addition of a group of new
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1711 changesets from outside the repository&emdash;completes. If
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1712 the hook succeeds, the transaction completes, and all of the
|
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1713 changesets become permanent within this repository. If the
|
bos@559
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1714 hook fails, the transaction is rolled back, and the data for
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1715 the changesets is erased.
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bos@559
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1716 </para>
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1717
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bos@584
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1718 <para id="x_2c7">This hook can access the metadata associated with the
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1719 almost-added changesets, but it should not do anything
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1720 permanent with this data. It must also not modify the working
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1721 directory.
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bos@559
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1722 </para>
|
bos@559
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1723
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bos@584
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1724 <para id="x_2c8">While this hook is running, if other Mercurial processes
|
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1725 access this repository, they will be able to see the
|
bos@559
|
1726 almost-added changesets as if they are permanent. This may
|
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1727 lead to race conditions if you do not take steps to avoid
|
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|
1728 them.
|
bos@559
|
1729 </para>
|
bos@559
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1730
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bos@584
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1731 <para id="x_2c9">This hook can be used to automatically vet a group of
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bos@559
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1732 changesets. If the hook fails, all of the changesets are
|
bos@559
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1733 <quote>rejected</quote> when the transaction rolls back.
|
bos@559
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1734 </para>
|
bos@559
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1735
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bos@584
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1736 <para id="x_2ca">Parameters to this hook:
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bos@559
|
1737 </para>
|
bos@559
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1738 <itemizedlist>
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bos@584
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1739 <listitem><para id="x_2cb"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
bos@559
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1740 changeset ID of the first changeset in the group that was
|
bos@559
|
1741 added. All changesets between this and
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1742 <literal role="tag">tip</literal>,
|
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|
1743 inclusive, were added by a single <command
|
bos@559
|
1744 role="hg-cmd">hg pull</command>, <command
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bos@559
|
1745 role="hg-cmd">hg push</command> or <command
|
bos@559
|
1746 role="hg-cmd">hg unbundle</command>.
|
bos@559
|
1747 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1748 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1749 <listitem><para id="x_2cc"><literal>source</literal>: A
|
bos@592
|
1750 string. The source of these changes. See <xref
|
bos@559
|
1751 linkend="sec:hook:sources"/> for details.
|
bos@559
|
1752 </para>
|
bos@559
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1753 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1754 <listitem><para id="x_2cd"><literal>url</literal>: A URL. The
|
bos@592
|
1755 location of the remote repository, if known. See <xref
|
bos@592
|
1756 linkend="sec:hook:url"/> for more information.
|
bos@559
|
1757 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1758 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
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1759
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bos@592
|
1760 <para id="x_2ce">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1761 role="hook">changegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1762 linkend="sec:hook:changegroup"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1763 role="hook">incoming</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1764 linkend="sec:hook:incoming"/>), <literal
|
bos@592
|
1765 role="hook">prechangegroup</literal> (<xref
|
bos@559
|
1766 linkend="sec:hook:prechangegroup"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1767 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1768 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1769
|
bos@559
|
1770 <sect2 id="sec:hook:pretxncommit">
|
bos@559
|
1771 <title><literal role="hook">pretxncommit</literal>&emdash;before
|
bos@559
|
1772 completing commit of new changeset</title>
|
bos@559
|
1773
|
bos@584
|
1774 <para id="x_2cf">This controlling hook is run before a
|
bos@559
|
1775 transaction&emdash;that manages a new commit&emdash;completes.
|
bos@559
|
1776 If the hook succeeds, the transaction completes and the
|
bos@559
|
1777 changeset becomes permanent within this repository. If the
|
bos@559
|
1778 hook fails, the transaction is rolled back, and the commit
|
bos@559
|
1779 data is erased.
|
bos@559
|
1780 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1781
|
bos@584
|
1782 <para id="x_2d0">This hook can access the metadata associated with the
|
bos@559
|
1783 almost-new changeset, but it should not do anything permanent
|
bos@559
|
1784 with this data. It must also not modify the working
|
bos@559
|
1785 directory.
|
bos@559
|
1786 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1787
|
bos@584
|
1788 <para id="x_2d1">While this hook is running, if other Mercurial processes
|
bos@559
|
1789 access this repository, they will be able to see the
|
bos@559
|
1790 almost-new changeset as if it is permanent. This may lead to
|
bos@559
|
1791 race conditions if you do not take steps to avoid them.
|
bos@559
|
1792 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1793
|
bos@682
|
1794 <para id="x_2d2">Parameters to this hook:</para>
|
bos@682
|
1795
|
bos@559
|
1796 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1797 <listitem><para id="x_2d3"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
bos@559
|
1798 changeset ID of the newly committed changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1799 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1800 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1801 <listitem><para id="x_2d4"><literal>parent1</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1802 The changeset ID of the first parent of the newly
|
bos@559
|
1803 committed changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1804 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1805 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1806 <listitem><para id="x_2d5"><literal>parent2</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1807 The changeset ID of the second parent of the newly
|
bos@559
|
1808 committed changeset.
|
bos@559
|
1809 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1810 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1811
|
bos@592
|
1812 <para id="x_2d6">See also: <literal
|
bos@592
|
1813 role="hook">precommit</literal> (<xref
|
bos@592
|
1814 linkend="sec:hook:precommit"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1815 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1816 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1817
|
bos@559
|
1818 <sect2 id="sec:hook:preupdate">
|
bos@559
|
1819 <title><literal role="hook">preupdate</literal>&emdash;before
|
bos@559
|
1820 updating or merging working directory</title>
|
bos@559
|
1821
|
bos@592
|
1822 <para id="x_2d7">This controlling hook is run before an update
|
bos@592
|
1823 or merge of the working directory begins. It is run only if
|
bos@592
|
1824 Mercurial's normal pre-update checks determine that the update
|
bos@592
|
1825 or merge can proceed. If the hook succeeds, the update or
|
bos@592
|
1826 merge may proceed; if it fails, the update or merge does not
|
bos@592
|
1827 start.
|
bos@559
|
1828 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1829
|
bos@584
|
1830 <para id="x_2d8">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1831 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1832 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@592
|
1833 <listitem><para id="x_2d9"><literal>parent1</literal>: A
|
bos@592
|
1834 changeset ID. The ID of the parent that the working
|
bos@592
|
1835 directory is to be updated to. If the working directory
|
bos@592
|
1836 is being merged, it will not change this parent.
|
bos@592
|
1837 </para>
|
bos@592
|
1838 </listitem>
|
bos@592
|
1839 <listitem><para id="x_2da"><literal>parent2</literal>: A
|
bos@592
|
1840 changeset ID. Only set if the working directory is being
|
bos@592
|
1841 merged. The ID of the revision that the working directory
|
bos@592
|
1842 is being merged with.
|
bos@559
|
1843 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1844 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1845
|
bos@592
|
1846 <para id="x_2db">See also: <literal role="hook">update</literal>
|
bos@592
|
1847 (<xref linkend="sec:hook:update"/>)</para>
|
bos@682
|
1848 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1849
|
bos@559
|
1850 <sect2 id="sec:hook:tag">
|
bos@559
|
1851 <title><literal role="hook">tag</literal>&emdash;after tagging a
|
bos@559
|
1852 changeset</title>
|
bos@559
|
1853
|
bos@584
|
1854 <para id="x_2dc">This hook is run after a tag has been created.
|
bos@584
|
1855 </para>
|
bos@584
|
1856
|
bos@584
|
1857 <para id="x_2dd">Parameters to this hook:
|
bos@559
|
1858 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1859 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1860 <listitem><para id="x_2de"><literal>local</literal>: A boolean. Whether
|
bos@559
|
1861 the new tag is local to this repository instance (i.e.
|
bos@559
|
1862 stored in <filename
|
bos@559
|
1863 role="special">.hg/localtags</filename>) or managed by
|
bos@559
|
1864 Mercurial (stored in <filename
|
bos@559
|
1865 role="special">.hgtags</filename>).
|
bos@559
|
1866 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1867 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1868 <listitem><para id="x_2df"><literal>node</literal>: A changeset ID. The
|
bos@559
|
1869 ID of the changeset that was tagged.
|
bos@559
|
1870 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1871 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1872 <listitem><para id="x_2e0"><literal>tag</literal>: A string. The name of
|
bos@559
|
1873 the tag that was created.
|
bos@559
|
1874 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1875 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1876
|
bos@584
|
1877 <para id="x_2e1">If the created tag is revision-controlled, the <literal
|
bos@559
|
1878 role="hook">commit</literal> hook (section <xref
|
bos@559
|
1879 linkend="sec:hook:commit"/>) is run before this hook.
|
bos@559
|
1880 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1881
|
bos@592
|
1882 <para id="x_2e2">See also: <literal role="hook">pretag</literal>
|
bos@592
|
1883 (<xref linkend="sec:hook:pretag"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1884 </para>
|
bos@682
|
1885 </sect2>
|
bos@682
|
1886
|
bos@559
|
1887 <sect2 id="sec:hook:update">
|
bos@559
|
1888 <title><literal role="hook">update</literal>&emdash;after
|
bos@559
|
1889 updating or merging working directory</title>
|
bos@559
|
1890
|
bos@584
|
1891 <para id="x_2e3">This hook is run after an update or merge of the working
|
bos@559
|
1892 directory completes. Since a merge can fail (if the external
|
bos@559
|
1893 <command>hgmerge</command> command fails to resolve conflicts
|
bos@559
|
1894 in a file), this hook communicates whether the update or merge
|
bos@559
|
1895 completed cleanly.
|
bos@559
|
1896 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1897
|
bos@559
|
1898 <itemizedlist>
|
bos@584
|
1899 <listitem><para id="x_2e4"><literal>error</literal>: A boolean.
|
bos@559
|
1900 Indicates whether the update or merge completed
|
bos@559
|
1901 successfully.
|
bos@559
|
1902 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1903 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1904 <listitem><para id="x_2e5"><literal>parent1</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1905 The ID of the parent that the working directory was
|
bos@559
|
1906 updated to. If the working directory was merged, it will
|
bos@559
|
1907 not have changed this parent.
|
bos@559
|
1908 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1909 </listitem>
|
bos@584
|
1910 <listitem><para id="x_2e6"><literal>parent2</literal>: A changeset ID.
|
bos@559
|
1911 Only set if the working directory was merged. The ID of
|
bos@559
|
1912 the revision that the working directory was merged with.
|
bos@559
|
1913 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1914 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
bos@559
|
1915
|
bos@584
|
1916 <para id="x_2e7">See also: <literal role="hook">preupdate</literal>
|
bos@592
|
1917 (<xref linkend="sec:hook:preupdate"/>)
|
bos@559
|
1918 </para>
|
bos@559
|
1919
|
bos@559
|
1920 </sect2>
|
bos@559
|
1921 </sect1>
|
bos@559
|
1922 </chapter>
|
bos@559
|
1923
|
bos@559
|
1924 <!--
|
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|
1925 local variables:
|
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|
1926 sgml-parent-document: ("00book.xml" "book" "chapter")
|
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|
1927 end:
|
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|
1928 -->
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