DITA for Small Teams Git-to-BaseX Hooks

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Eliot Kimber <ekimber at contrext.com> wrote: > I think I have my git hooks for loading XML into BaseX working well enough > (there's more refinement to do but the minimum functionality is there). > > The code is available here: > https://github.com/dita-for-small-teams/dfst-git-commit-hooks/tree/develop > > (That's on the develop branch) > > The functionality works as follows: > > - On checkout of a branch, see if a corresponding database is in BaseX, if > not, create the database (named for the repo directory and branch), load > all XML files (*.xml,*.dita,*.ditamap), and capture the git branch name > and commit hash. If the database exists and the commit is not the current > commit, reflect changes from the DB's commit and the branch's commit. > > - On commit or merge, update the database to reflect the changes between > HEAD and HEAD^ > > I do not react (yet) to branch delete, but BaseX database maintenance is > easy enough that it would be hard (e.g., just drop the database for that > branch). > > I think this set hooks is sufficient to ensure that the BaseX databases > will always be in sync with the git repo. > > I'm using the approach of one database per branch so that I can then > implement branch-aware queries in the repo. This is essential for link > management where you want to be able to view the documents through > specific branch such that non-version-specific links will resolve to the > version visible on that branch (this approach doesn't handle being able to > resolve to older versions--that would require maintaining per-commit > databases, although that might be necessary for certain use cases, hmmm). > > Thanks for all the help here, especially Charles Duffy's help with bash > script coding. > > Cheers, > > E. > ————— > Eliot Kimber, Owner > Contrext, LLC > http://contrext.com > > >