How to implement SVN pre-commit hook with best performance?

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Published on 2010-01-12T17:22:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 0:31 UTC
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We have the following tools in place:

Subversion (Version 1.5.9)
Polarion (version 3.2.2)

Polarion is based on Subversion, so on every action that changes anything (which is often the case), Polarion will use a Subversion commit to change anything. All things are currently stored in one and only one repository, so every commit of every user (some 100-200 on the same repository) will trigger the pre-commit hook.

So what is the best strategy to provide pre-commit hooks that will

trigger only for some, but not all projects
run as fast as possible, because every pre-commit hook will block all other commits.

We have tried to implement pre-commit hooks with Java (using SVNKit), but this will start on every commit a Java VM. So any ideas how to implement that nicely?

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