Sending commit emails from a central location

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 21:41 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Hello guys.
> 
> I've always liked commit emails for some projects, and bzr-email is not
> really a solution for me, because everybody has to individually
> configure the plugin, etc. I'm told post_commit will one day work on the
> server side, when using bzr+ssh://, but alas, people could still push
> with sftp://.
> 
> So I sat down today and wrote a tool to watch branches on the machine
> they're hosted, and send mails from there. This ensures that every
> pushed commit gets an email.
> 
> Sending this mail in case this tool is of interest to somebody else. :-)
> 
>   http://chistera.yi.org/~adeodato/code/bzr/bzr-hookless-email/
> 
> P.S.: Code from bzr-email/emailer.py was stolen for this. Maybe it'd be
> nice to have in bzrlib code to generate a "commit email".

A few thoughts..
Firstly, you can reuse bzr-email/emailer.py:
====
from bzrlib.plugins.email import emailer
====

No need to copy code at all.

Secondly, if you configure branch.conf to send email, the email plugin
should send it correctly even if you are committing over sftp to a
central branch.

-Rob

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