> 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
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> : ___
> >>> : oo // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile"
> >>> : (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN
> >>> : \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control
> >>> : /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMe
> ssageId=2413826
> >>>
> >>> To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-
> unsubscribe_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org].
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> > --
> > : ___
> > : oo // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile"
> > : (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN
> > : \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control
> > : /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMe
> ssageId=2413884
> >
> > To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-
> unsubscribe_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org].
> >
>
> 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.
>
Is there a reason you don't just use the native win32 svn cli client? Most of the svn devs recommend that you not use svn in Cygwin.
BOb
------------------------------------------------------
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=2413922
To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org].
Received on 2009-11-02 21:07:51 CET