Tortoise SVN hook show changes

Question

We are using TortoiseSVN to commit repository changes and I am writing a hook in C#, which gets the file changes made passed by the diff, etc to basically show commit information to the user.

Is it possible maybe using a plugin or something to output the the information to the user, as the only thing I managed to find is writing to Console.Error.WriteLine and is only shown when there is an error using Environment.Exit(1).

Is there any other way to write to the TortoiseSVN Client? Maybe someone has used another way.

Attached also please find a screenshot of how the Console.Error.WriteLine displays on the client TortoiseSVN.

Answer 1

Any response sent back from a pre-commit hook script must be sent via stderr (or equivalent) and is treated as a non-successful result from the hook script, which will result in the commit being rejected.

If you need to communicate to the committer from the pre-commit hook script, you will need to do it via another means (IM, email, Slack bot, etc.).