Re: commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Neil Conway wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > I can't see this really being possible ... have you seen this on another
> > project?
>
> Sure, it's quite common. There's a list of scripts that support this
> kind of functionality at the bottom of this page:
>
> http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/cvsspam/
>
> So there are plenty of alternatives to choose from. For example, David
> Wheeler's "activitymail" can be instructed via a command-line argument
> to include inline diffs, or include diffs as attachments:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/activitymail/
>
> (that functionality described in "README")
>
> Whereas "cvslog" seems to support both including the entire diff with
> the message or including CVSWeb URLs:
>
> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/cvslog/
>
> > For the really simple commits, sure ... but for the more complex
> > ones, we'd been talking a load of URLs, for each of the different files
> > being updated ...
>
> Personally I'd prefer the entire diff to be attached to each -committers
> mail, which would circumvent this problem. Would others find that
> objectionable?

'k, let me look into it when I get back ... but some of those diffs would
be humongous, no? Ah well, let me look, I can try it out and if nobody
likes it, can always disable the diffs again afterwards ...

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