R – ny way to perform pre-/post-switch commands using TortoiseSVN

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We need to perform some tasks when switching from one Subversion branch to another using TortoiseSVN. Is there any way to, say, call a batch file before and after the switch? The only thing I can find are pre-/post-update and commit hooks, but none of those get executed when switching between branches.

EDIT: I am looking for client-side hooks. TortoiseSVN has client-side hook scripts for pre-/post-update and commit, but nothing (that I can find) for pre-/post-switch. Initially, I thought adding hooks for client-side pre-/post-update would be executed when switching between branches, but this does not seem to be the case.

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Hooks happen on the server side; switching branches is essentially a fancy update method for the client. Since Tortise isn't a SVN server, I'm assuming this article sums up exactly your situation:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-06/0328.shtml

The batch file that does what you need would have to be executed locally instead of using TortiseSVN and it would have to do the local branch switching for you before or after your custom code, as necessary.

Merge trunk into a branch / tag

Checkout the branch / tag
Right-click on the root of the branch | Tortoise SVN | Merge ...
Merge Type: Merge a range of revisions | Click 'Next'
Merge revision range: Select the URL of the trunk directory that you copied to the branch / tag. Enter the revisions to merge or leave the field empty to merge all revisions | click 'Next'
Merge options: I just left these as default | click 'Merge'
This will merge the revisions into the checked out branch / tag
Then commit the merged changes to the branch / tag

Run exe after successful svn export from TortoiseSVN

I don't think this can be done in Tortoise. As you already say, there are hooks, but not for exporting.

I'd say this calls for a script or batch file. SVN has its own command line client that you could use to do the export; You could check for a successful export using ERRORLEVEL:

export.bat

@echo off
svn export xyz
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO fail
IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO success

:fail
echo Fail!
GOTO end

:success
echo Success! Now calling EXE file...
call my_exe_file_here.exe
GOTO end

:end

untested but should work.

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