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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>start-commit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion" /><link rel="up" href="svn.ref.reposhooks.html" title="Repository Hooks" /><link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.reposhooks.html" title="Repository Hooks" /><link rel="next" href="svn.ref.reposhooks.pre-commit.html" title="pre-commit" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">start-commit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.reposhooks.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Repository Hooks</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.reposhooks.pre-commit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="svn.ref.reposhooks.start-commit"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><a id="id428218" class="indexterm"></a><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>start-commit — Notification of the beginning of a commit.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id428245"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>The start-commit hook is run before the commit
transaction is even created. It is typically used to
decide if the user has commit privileges at all.</p><p>If the start-commit hook program returns a non-zero exit
value, the commit is stopped before the commit transaction
is even created, and anything printed to stderr is
marshalled back to the client.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id428261"></a><h2>Input Parameter(s)</h2><p>The command-line arguments passed to the hook program,
in order, are:</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>repository path</p></li><li><p>authenticated username attempting the commit</p></li><li><p>(new in Subversion 1.5) colon separated list of
capabilities that a client psses to the server,
including <code class="literal">depth</code>,
<code class="literal">mergeinfo</code>, and
<code class="literal">log-revprops</code>.</p></li></ol></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id428319"></a><h2>Common Uses</h2><p>access control (e.g. temporarily lock out commits for
some reason)</p><p>a means to allow access only from clients that have
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