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

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:31:49PM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Wednesday August 20, 2003 04:27, Miles Egan wrote:
> > I've gotten pretty used to having server-side commit hooks that send
> > email when anyone working on a project commits a change in CVS and
> > subversion.  From what I can tell from the documentation, it looks like
> > arch only supports per-user hooks in ~/.arch_params/hook.  Is there any
> > way to set up a common commit hook for all trees in an archive?
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> Since there is no arch server, there is no way for arch to do that for you.  
> What you want to do is set up a daemon on your server that monitors the 
> archive for changes and have that generate your mails.
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> I tried to talk Shu into writing one, when we discussed this very issue 
> recently, so hopefully he'll speak up here.

It would be possible to extend arch in a way, that it downloads a script
from the archive directory and runs it on the client (which would work
for sending mails).

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