How to require commit messages in VisualSVN server?

Question

We\'ve got VisualSVN Server set up as our Subversion server on Windows, and we use Ankhsvn + TortoiseSVN as clients on our workstations.

How can you configure the se

Answer 1

Use this pre-commit hook on Windows. It's written in Windows Batch and uses grep command-line utility to check the commit length.

svnlook log -t "%2" "%1" | c:\tools\grep -c "[a-zA-z0-9]" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 1 exit 0

echo Please enter a check-in comment 1>&2
exit 1

Remember that you'll need a copy of grep, I recommend the gnu tools version.