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I realize this post is probably not as interesting as integrating Lighthouseapp with GIT but I thought I would jot down a couple of notes.

There is a great script that shows you how to set up subversion with lighthouse here:

http://www.lighthouseapp.com/help/setting-up-subversion-integration

The documentation is sufficient, but too sparse for my tastes.

Here’s some notes that might help you.

1. First of all, you’ll need to know where your subversion repository is stored on your server. Let’s say its in: /svn/repos

2. In that folder there should be another folder called “hooks”. You’ll need to create a file called “post-commit” in this directory, if there isn’t one already. In that empty file put the following:

4. Next, copy the script from the link at the top of this page to a file called “lighthouse.rb” in the /svn/repos/hooks/ directory. You’ll need to change a few things in this file. You’ll need to set the token to the api token you created on lighthouseapp. I’m not entirely sure what the seperate user tokens that follow that are for…ours seems to work fine without each user having their own token. “Account” is the the base url of your lighthouseapp page. Should be something like ‘http://mycompany.lighthouseapp.com’. The project number, which the author claims is self expanatory, is the number that you find in the URL when you are looking at a particular issue. For instance, your URL might look like this:

You want the 8958 from here…you don’t want to include the “-launch” part. I disabled the “prefix:” option by deleting this line completely, and removing the comma from the previous line.

5. Finally, you have to make sure that your permissions on your post-commit and your lighthouse.rb file are executable. To test, you could do a chmod 777 lighthouse.rb and chmod 777 post-commit. You’ll want to set these more strictly once you have your server set up.

6. That’s it. You should be able to run

./post-commit /svn/repos 200

from your hooks directory (200 is the number of an existing revision in your subversion repository), and it should run. On lighthouse, you should see a new entry that says “changeset” with information about the revision, and who made it. Any new commits with now show up in lighthouse as well.