[rfc] Trigger Plugin

[James Blackwell]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:45:08PM -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> I'd love some comments on this trigger plugin that I wrote.  Basically
> the syntax is this:
> 	bzr trigger <command>
> 
> It will run <command> for every revision in the branch.  Subsequent
> calls to bzr trigger with the same command specified will only run on
> revisions since the last call.  So for instance, if you were to put the
> following command into a cron job, it would email you the log for every
> commit:
> 	bzr trigger bzr log %branch% -r %revno% | sendmail foo at bar.com

Neat idea! I can imagine this being really useful for bzr->cvs gateways.

Trigger doesn't seem like the best name ever though. When I hear
"trigger", I think command hooks. I almost imagine that you could call the
command "foreach ..."

Definitely a neat idea. ;)
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