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Re: Feature idea: user-configurable post-commit notifications

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:00:25 -0400

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:53, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23.04.2010 00:06, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>>
>> With the increased integration of build tools and other notification
>> systems
>> which desire knowledge of commit activity, it would be useful to provide
>> an
>> easier mechanism of installing post-commit notification, without having to
>> use the hook infrastructure.  Imagine a user being able to set up commit
>> mails, CIA notifications, and buildbot notifications *without* having to
>> have access to the repository.  To that end, I propose the following.
>>
>> Simply a versioned property, which, when encountered during the course of
>> a
>> commit, causes the server to emit a notification.  This property would be
>> a
>> list of URLs, to which the repository would send a specially formatted
>> POST
>> with the information about the commit.  (The idea being that a committer
>> to
>> the project could set up this property, as well as the server which
>> receives
>> these notifications, all without the intervention of the repository
>> administrator.)  As part of the bubble up, the repo would queue these
>> URLs,
>> and then POST to them during the post-commit phase of the commit.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> We have something similar in TortoiseSVN: client-side hook scripts.
> Some people use those to send out notifications after a commit, some to copy
> files to their webserver, ...
> http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-hooks
>
> But TortoiseSVN gathers all information purely on the client side. So I'm
> not sure if this feature in svn would require a server-side change or hook
> script to do that?

If the committers use various clients, then yes: some kind of
server-side solution would be needed.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2010-04-23 13:00:54 CEST

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