Re: [Savannah-hackers] Emacs-commit does not catch every commit

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:43:44PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     I will try to incorporate diffmon in Savannahs CVS when I get a chance. 
> That
>     way each project will be able to decide whether they want to receive
>     differences by mail or just a pointer to a webpage with the differences.
> 
> I really need this urgently; could you possibly do this soon?  Very
> soon?  It should not be hard to set up diffmon.
OK, I've started working on it, even though I'm on a very tight schedule
nowadays.

> Note that there is no need to make each project choose one way or
> the other.  Both methods can easily be used for a single project:
> having the current commit messages, and diffmon messages, on
> separate mailing lists.
Good idea, I will do that.

> Another possibility is to have a script that reads the commit
> announcement messages, runs cvs to generate corresponding diffs,
> and then puts them into a message which it mails to another list.
> If this makes it easier, please do it this way.

The part of obtaining the differences between two versions is very trivial; I
won't use either diffmon or cvs; something as simple as:
  rcsdiff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 /cvsroot/someproject/comefile,v
will get the differences we need.

The problem is to incorporate this within the program that we currently use in
Savannah (log_accum) without breaking anything. Sending automatic e-mail
notifications from Savannah has given us a lot of headaches but we finally
managed to make the messages go through fencepost. If I'm not very careful I
may break down the current notifications system for the other projects. But by
tomorrow I should have the problem solved.

Cheers,
Jaime Villate

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