How do I implement an SVN hook to know the filename of the file committed, etc.?

Question

I am using Windows XP and TortoiseSVN, and I would like to know the filename, the path of the file, author, and other details about the revision committed to the repository by using a post-commit hook. Do we have to use a certain language to do this such as Python or is this possible to write even by using a batch file only?

Answer 1

Start here

Quote from that link:

Windows, however, uses file extensions to determine whether a program is executable, so you would need to supply a program whose basename is the name of the hook and whose extension is one of the special extensions recognized by Windows for executable programs, such as .exe for programs and .bat for batch files.

Answer 2

Here is a nice tutorial on how to create SVN hooks http://wordaligned.org/articles/a-subversion-pre-commit-hook Basically you need to create a post-commit.exe or bat script. It can execute a python code of you want py calling:

python myhook.py

Inside the script.