Re: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification with changes

[Larry Jones]

Uri Abramov writes [in very long lines]:
> 
> 1. Is it possible to add new administrative file under CVSROOT in such
> way that it would be treated by cvs as it treads it's native
> administrative files. I mean always keep in repository  file,v and file.
> If it' possible how can I do it ?

        <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_18.html#SEC176>

> 2. I'd like CVS send email to every developer who works on certain
> project when someone from them remove, add or change file, and more than
> that I'd like to send in the email the diff between old and new versions
> of a file. Does anybody knows how it can be done?

        <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_18.html#SEC171>

Also see the example script in contrib/log -- it runs status rather than
diff, but the principle is the same.

-Larry Jones

I obey the letter of the law, if not the spirit. -- Calvin