Re: sending summary mails

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003, Christian Andersson wrote:

> Hi there, I wonder if this is possible within cvs, or do I need some
> external toll to make it possible...
>
> what I want to achieve is to get a summary mail sent out to different
> cvs-users that tells what changes has been made to the repositury during
> the last hour or so...  I'm not talking about sending out diffs or so,
> but perheps jsut something like this..
>
> /repository/dir1/dir2/file.txt has been changed by USER and the new
> revision is 1.4
> /repository/dir1/dir2/file2.txt is a new file added by USER
> [...]

OSSP shiela (http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/shiela/) can produce summary
mails with and without diffs. The output you get is something like this
(depends on which parts you let OSSP shiela includ in your produced
report):

|   Server: cvs.openpkg.org                  Name:   Michael Schloh
|   Root:   /e/openpkg/cvs                   Email:  address@hidden
|   Module: openpkg-src openpkg-web openpkg$ Date:   27-Jan-2003 19:40:29
|   Branch: HEAD                             Handle: 2003012718402701
|
|   Modified files:
|     openpkg-re/vcheck       vc.amd
|     openpkg-src/amd         amd.patch amd.spec
|     openpkg-web             news.txt
|
|   Log:
|     upgrading package: amd 6.0.8 -> 6.0.9
|
|   Summary:
|     Revision    Changes     Path
|     1.4         +1  -1      openpkg-re/vcheck/vc.amd
|     1.4         +50 -69     openpkg-src/amd/amd.patch
|     1.34        +3  -3      openpkg-src/amd/amd.spec
|     1.3063      +1  -0      openpkg-web/news.txt

In your case you perhaps just want the header, the log and the summary
parts from above.
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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