Re: [Monotone-devel] Building a notifier for use on a server. Feature request.

[Christof Petig]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker schrieb:
> for a while now, I've been thinking about how to build an email logger
> with diffs, like there are a few for CVS.  I find those loggers quite
> practical to follow exactly what's going on in a project.  There is
> the note_commit hook, sure, but it's quite useless for my purposes.  I
> basically want to be able to create a mailing list where all commits,
> not just my own, are logged.
>
> What I'm thinking of doing (well, actually started already) is a
> script that would keep a record of the revision last seen in each
> branch, and periodically (say once an hour) check if anything has
> changed in the database and create diff logs.  Sounds simple enough,
> all that's needed is to use 'monotone lca' (which is undocumencted,
> btw) in case there are several heads in a branch, to make sure the
> diff is made correctly.

I also would like a feature like this. But my idea was to make the
monotone server process emit a mail (or better: queue an event) once a
new revision is synced into its database (LUA hook?). The revision ID
would be enough to look up author, branch, diff, ancestors etc and mail
them to a list. Graydon told me some time ago that such a mechanism
already exists (though I had the impression that it could only track
local checkins, no sync-ins).

   Christof

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