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Subversion provides a mechanism for policy enforcement (e.g. repository path-based access control, enforcement of coding conventions), tracking development activity, and performing fine-grained repository backups
This mechanism is “hook scripts”
Hook scripts are simply executable programs (often written in a scripting language) that reside in the repository on the Subversion server, and are triggered by some repository event

Subversion provides a mechanism for policy enforcement (e.g. repository path-based access control, enforcement of coding conventions), tracking development activity, and performing fine-grained repository backups