Using a Subversion commit hook to interact with TimingAndEstimationPlugin

Description

The contrib/trac-post-commit-hook script is a very convenient tool to interact with Trac's ticket system on commit. It allows to modify time tracking values and ticket state through special commit messages. This script references the TimingAndEstimationPlugin.

• Copy trac-post-commit-hook into /usr/share/trac/contrib.
• Create a script hooks/post-commit in your Subversion repository with the content below (modify TRAC_ENV to point to your local Trac project).
• Set the executable bit: chmod 755 hooks/post-commit.

#!/bin/sh
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
LOG=`svnlook log -r $REV $REPOS`
AUTHOR=`svnlook author -r $REV $REPOS`
TRAC_ENV='/var/trac/test'

/usr/bin/python /usr/share/trac/contrib/trac-post-commit-hook \
  -p "$TRAC_ENV"  \
  -r "$REV"       \
  -u "$AUTHOR"    \
  -m "$LOG"

You can now use special keywords in your commit message to modify Trac tickets. The available commands are:

refs #id	Adds a reference to the ticket's Changelog
re #id	Adds a reference to the ticket's Changelog
closes #id	Closes the ticket
fixes #id	Closes the ticket

The time spent is specified in parentheses:

ex. re #853 (1) adds one hour to the ticket 853

See contrib/trac-post-commit-hook for details (after applying the patch).

Download

This plugin's version of the post-commit-hook:

• for Trac 0.10​
• for Trac 0.11​

Note: This information was taken from ​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TimeTracking#UsingaSubversioncommithookoptional and modified to show how it works with this plugin.

Examples

svn commit -m 'closes #1 (1), refs #2 (.5)  Added time tracking'

This closes ticket #1, increases the time spent by 1 hour. It adds an entry to the Changelog of ticket #2, increases the time spent by .5 hours.

Gotchas

The script is pretty picky about what input it accepts. I would suggest entering all of the commit hook commands on separate lines at the beginning of the message for best results.

Open Questions

Relationship with normal ticket commit script

There is a commit hook trac-post-commit-hook that comes with Trac that enables closing tickets and adding references to tickets. This plugin provides a modified version that should be used instead, that also allows tracking hours.