Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [arch-users] hooks and remote archives

[Miles Egan]

Bruce Stephens wrote:

> You can't do this, because there's currently nothing in the client
> that uses hooks defined in the archive.  And there's no server to do
> stuff.
>
> So you'll need to do it by introducing some kind of process.  For
> example, for the archive that many people may commit to (perhaps
> because it represents what you'd use the CVS HEAD for, or because
> you're wanting to have something to make releases from, or whatever),
> you could have that archive owned by a special user, and set up that
> user with whatever hooks you want.  
>  
Sorry for the dupe request.  I didn't see my first message for a while 
so I thought it was lost.

This is a significant minus for arch for us.  We use the commit emails 
as a kind of informal code review process.

I guess I could set up some kind of cron job to send out change mails, 
right?

miles