RE: URL's in commit mails?

This is actually pretty much exactly what I was thinking of.

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 Kevin Pilch-Bisson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Foad [mailto:julianfoad@btopenworld.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: C. Michael Pilato
> Cc: Kevin Pilch-Bisson; kfogel@collab.net; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: URL's in commit mails?
> 
> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> > Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
> >
> >>C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> >>
> >>>There is no information that I aware of which could be used by the
> >>>mailer to determine the right schema.  Further, only the http://
and
> >>>https:// URLs are "browsable" -- you can't fire up Mozilla and
expect
> >>>to see the right stuff at file:// or svn:// URLs.
> >>>So, mailer.py would be limited probably to either display some URL
as
> >>>defined statically in mailer.conf (which is keyed on the basename
of
> >>>the repository, I think), or displaying nothing at all.
> >>
> >>Sure - it can't work automatically for every situation.  Perhaps we
just
> want (first) something that works for svn@subversion.tigris.org.
> >>
> >>For each of the paths listed at the top of the mail as "Added" or
> "Modified" it could prepend a statically-configured prefix: default
"",
> but for us "http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/".  This would give:
> >>
> >>Modified:
> >>
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/subversion/include/svn_error.h
> >>
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/subversion/svnversion/main.c
> >
> > Please, no.  Two reasons:
> >
> >   1.  You're dangerously close to exceeding 80 characters, and those
> >       paths aren't *nearly* the deepest in our tree.
> >   2.  You just prepended half a line of info that is redundant
across
> >       the set of all such lines.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > If we're really going to go this route, then folks, it's time to
break
> > out the MIME dual HTML/plaintext mail generation code.
> 
> Yes, but that's probably too complex for a quick fix.  I think all the
> original poster wanted was some quick way of getting from the commit
mail
> to the repository, so I preferred my second idea of a link to a
ViewCVS
> server for it ... but that probably doesn't exist in the required
form, so
> ...
> 
> ... just put a single additional URL at the top, formed from
> "http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/" plus the common parent path that is
> already generated for use in the Subject line.
> 
> Or whatever.
> 
> - Julian
> 
> 
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