two issues with quickguide

[Mary Gardiner]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005, Jeff Schering wrote:
> P.S. for my own purposes, I developed a procedure for checking things
> before committing them. The procedure is a bit tedious and seems like
> overkill, but it has already saved me once from making a bad commit.

Is there any possibility of automating at least the validation (and
perhaps the compilation into various output formats) as a commit hook?
That is, if you try and commit invalid or non-compiling docbook, the
commit will not go ahead?

-Mary