Re: Scheduling an email of change logs.

2009/11/2 Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>:
> 2009/11/2 Richard Quadling <rquadling_at_googlemail.com>:
>> 2009/11/2 Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>:
>>> 2009/11/2 Richard Quadling <rquadling_at_googlemail.com>:
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> I'm a newbie to SVN, so please be gentle.
>>>>
>>>> I'm on windows, so, please be even more gentle!
>>>>
>>>> Using TortoiseSVN, I can manually create CSV files of the cache for
>>>> the repository (Right clicking a repository, choosing TortoiseSVN ->
>>>> Settings -> Cached Repositories -> Update & Export - more or less).
>>>>
>>>> From there, I can create emails for each major project/branch per
>>>> day/week showing the commit messages and urls of changes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way I can programmatically do the export? I want to have
>>>> the process run unattended, so no manual update & export.
>>>>
>>>> As some indication of the project, there are 969 authors, 368,438
>>>> paths, 290144 revisions. It is a pretty big project.
>>>>
>>>> I also see that I have a logcache folder containing a Repositories.dat
>>>> file and the cache file for the repository I'm interested in. Is this
>>>> file readable externally? Is the format/structure documented?
>>>>
>>>> I've no problems accessing the CSV files to build my reports. I'd like
>>>> to be able to create the CSV files automatically or to update the
>>>> logcache file and access that.
>>>>
>>>> Either way really.
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> You would be better off doing this on the server side, maybe triggered
>>> by a post-commit hook. That is how commit emails are usually sent out.
>>> If you use the log cache on the client you have to be sure the client
>>> is up-to-date first.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
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>>
>> No problem with doing it client side. I just want to be able to get
>> the logcache uptodate before I run the email scripts.
>>
>> That is what I don't know how to do programmatically. I can do it
>> manually. But I don't want to be here every day at midnight waiting
>> for it...
>>
>> Currently ...
>>
>> tortoiseproc /command:settings
>>
>> will show the dialog for all the settings.
>>
>> If this could be extended to say something like ...
>>
>> tortoiseproc /command:settings /logupdate:<repository_url>
>> tortoiseproc /command:settings /logexport:<repository_url>
>> /destination:<somepath with a prefix for the exported files>
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> tortoiseproc /command:settings /logupdate:http://svn.xxxx.net/repository
>> tortoiseproc /command:settings
>> /logexport:http://svn.xxxx.net/repository
>> /destination:D:\SVNCaches\XXXX_
>>
>> would create ...
>>
>> XXXX_authors.csv
>> XXXX_changes.csv
>> etc.
>>
>> Something like that would be really useful for me.
>>
>> Or is there another way.
>>
>> The idea is that I will process the data to extract the commit logs
>> for all the major project branches each day and email the significant
>> groups. Essentially a summary of all the commits.
>
> TortoiseSVN is a GUI client, so it is not intended to be used
> unattended, any more than you call MS Word from a batch file to
> generate documents based on command line parameters. You need to use
> the command line client for scripting. You can do that client side or
> server side, but for automated nightly tasks, personally I would want
> to set that up on the server and then forget about it. YMMV.
>
> Simon
>
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TortoiseProc _IS_ a command line util. I use it to script regular
updates and build processes already. I initially used Cygwin's svn
(because I already used other Cygwin's tools), but someone buggered up
the permissions and win32 lost access and I've not had chance (or a
care) to sort it.

I do also have Slik's svn cli toolset.

Looks like I'm going to have to extend TortoiseProc for my own needs.

I think adding a post-commit hook on the server is probably the best
bet. But it would seem I'm missing info on the server.

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