I've always found checkin mails to be very useful for keeping track of what work other people are doing in the codebase. How do I set up SVN to email a distribution list on each checkin?
Edit: I'm running clients on Windows and the server on Linux. The answers below for various platforms will likely be useful to other people though.
You'll want to familiarize yourself with repository hooks, particularly the post-commit hook
You use the post-commit hooks. Here's a guide: http://builddeploy.blogspot.com/2008/01/implementing-subversion-post-commit.html
Here's a sample script that sends an email after each commit: commit-email.rb
What platform?
On Mac OS X I have installed msmtp and created a post-commit script under hooks in the repository. A .msmtprc file needs to be setup for the svn (or www) user.
REPOS="`echo $1 | sed 's/\/{root of repository}//g'` "
REV="$2"
MSG=`/usr/local/bin/svn log -v -r HEAD https://localhost$REPOS`
/usr/local/bin/msmtp {list of recipents} <<EOF
Subject: SVN-Commit $REPOS#$REV
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit
$MSG
EOF
Make {root of repository} and {list of recipents} specific for your needs. Note I have used UTF8 because we have some special characters here in sweden (åäö)
There is a (large) example written in Perl included in the Subversion source (it can be viewed here).
Have a look at Subversion Notify (Windows only)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/svn-notify/
http://www.subversionnotify.com/
It can do emailing on commit and also much more!
There's a related question here on post-commit hooks. Personally, I prefer to send a message to something I can get an RSS feed from, as an email-per-commit would overload my inbox pretty quickly.
Seconding @Matt Miller on RSS feeds.
There's a useful tool called WebSVN that offers RSS feeds of every repository and individual branches/tags/folders with full commit messages. It's also a great web interface for quickly looking at file histories and commits/diffs without having to run an update and open your editor of choice.
As someone else said, 'what platform'. On Windows I've used 'blat', which is a freebie command line SMTP mailer to do this, along with a post-commit and another batch file.
The post commit looks like this: (Just calls another batch file)
call d:\subversion\repos\rts\hooks\mail %1 %2
And mail.bat looked like this:
copy d:\subversion\repos\RTS\hooks\Commitmsg.txt %temp%\commit.txt
copy d:\subversion\repos\RTS\hooks\subjbase.txt %temp%\subject.txt
svnlook info -r %2 %1 >> %temp%\commit.txt
echo Revision %2 >> %temp%\commit.txt
svnlook changed -r %2 %1 >> %temp%\commit.txt
svnlook author -r %2 %1 >> %temp%\subject.txt
c:\utils\blat %temp%\commit.txt -t <[email protected]> -sf %temp%\subject.txt -server ServerName -f "SVN Admin <[email protected]>" -noh2
The biggest gotcha in writing SVN hooks is that you might have basically NO environment set-up - no exe path, no temp path, etc. Though maybe that's improved in more recent SVN builds.
I use a post-commit script similar to this one
It's sends a nice HTML email. I updated it some where it highlights code that was removed in red and highlights code that was added in blue.
I have understand a Bit from you Guys. Thanks
I am using WINDOWS 2003 AS Subversion Server. Now i want to send Emails whenever a File get Updated in Developer's workspace in Trunk.
i HAVE understand that this is possible due to "Post-Commit Hook" and you may write down a Batch file.
Please set an Example for this
Awaiting your response
Regards WSBokhari
In the "hooks" directory of your specific subversion branch there are 9 template files to get you started.
Key point: subversion will not execute any of the files until they are renamed. To get post-commit.tmpl to execute under unix, rename it "post-commit". Under Windows, rename it to "post-commit.bat" or "post-commit.exe". Subversion will not execute the file if it is named "post-commit.tmpl" or "post-commit.sh" or the like.
Also, make sure that the file is executable by the same user that runs subversion.