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One way to customize Bazaar's behaviour is with *hooks*. Hooks allow you to
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perform actions before or after certain Bazaar operations. The operations
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include ``commit``, ``push``, ``pull``, and ``uncommit``.
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For a complete list of hooks and their parameters, see `Hooks
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<../user-reference/index.html#hooks>`_ in the User Reference.
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Most hooks are run on the client, but a few are run on the server. (Also
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see the `push-and-update plugin`_ that handles one special case of
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server-side operations.)
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.. _push-and-update plugin: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/push-and-update-plugin.html
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To use a hook, you should `write a plugin`_. Instead of
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creating a new command, this plugin will define and install the hook. Here's
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from bzrlib import branch
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def post_push_hook(push_result):
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print "The new revno is %d" % push_result.new_revno
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branch.Branch.hooks.install_named_hook('post_push', post_push_hook,
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.. _write a plugin: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/plugin-development.html
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To use this example, create a file named ``push_hook.py``, and stick it in
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``plugins`` subdirectory of your configuration directory. (If you have never
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installed any plugins, you may need to create the ``plugins`` directory).
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That's it! The next time you push, it should show "The new revno is...".
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Of course, hooks can be much more elaborate than this, because you have the
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full power of Python at your disposal. Now that you know how to use hooks,
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what you do with them is up to you.
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The plugin code does two things. First, it defines a function that will be
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run after ``push`` completes. (It could instead use an instance method or
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a callable object.) All push hooks take a single argument, the
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Second, the plugin installs the hook. The first argument ``'post_push'``
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identifies where to install the hook. The second argument is the hook
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itself. The third argument is a name ``'My post_push hook'``, which can be
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used in progress messages and error messages.
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To reduce the start-up time of Bazaar it is also possible to "lazily" install hooks,
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using the ``bzrlib.hooks.install_lazy_named_hook`` function. This removes the need
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to load the module that contains the hook point just to install the hook. Here's lazy
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version of the example above::
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from bzrlib import hooks
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def post_push_hook(push_result):
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print "The new revno is %d" % push_result.new_revno
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hooks.install_lazy_named_hook('bzrlib.branch', 'Branch.hooks',
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'post_push', post_push_hook, 'My post_push hook')
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To get a list of installed hooks (and available hook points), use the hidden
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Example: a merge plugin
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-----------------------
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Here's a complete plugin that demonstrates the ``Merger.merge_file_content``
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hook. It installs a hook that forces any merge of a file named ``*.xml``
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to be a conflict, even if Bazaar thinks it can merge it cleanly.
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"""Custom 'merge' logic for *.xml files.
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Always conflicts if both branches have changed the file.
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from bzrlib.merge import PerFileMerger, Merger
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def merge_xml_files_hook(merger):
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"""Hook to merge *.xml files"""
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return AlwaysConflictXMLMerger(merger)
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class AlwaysConflictXMLMerger(PerFileMerger):
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def file_matches(self, params):
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filename = self.get_filename(params, self.merger.this_tree)
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return filename.endswith('.xml')
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def merge_matching(self, params):
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return 'conflicted', params.this_lines
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Merger.hooks.install_named_hook(
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'merge_file_content', merge_xml_files_hook, '*.xml file merge')
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``merge_file_content`` hooks are executed for each file to be merged. For
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a more a complex example look at the ``news_merge`` plugin that's bundled with
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Bazaar in the ``bzrlib/plugins`` directory.