SVN pre-commit hook for avoiding changes to tags subdirectories

Question

Is there anybody who has clear instructions on how to add a pre-commit hook that avoids changes to tags subdirectories?

I already searched the internet quite a bit.

Answer 1

If you are using JIRA, you can use the add-on named Commit Policy to protect paths in your repository without writing custom hooks.

How? Use the condition named Changed files must match a pattern.

It has an regular expression type argument that must match for every file in a commit, otherwise the commit is rejected. So, in your case you should use a regex that means "does not start with the prefix /tags/".

(You can implement many other smart checks with the same plugin.)

Disclaimer: I'm a developer working on this paid add-on.