svnpoller 0.0.6

polling svn repository and notify by email.

svnpoller watches target SVN repositories regularly and transmits a commit-mail to the designated notify party about each commit when there are new commits.

Setting sample

svnpoller.ini:

[mail]
smtpserver = localhost
fromaddr = [e-mail]

[sample-section]
url = http://svn.example.org/path/to/repos/with/sub/path
address = [e-mail], [e-mail]

Notify mail sample

Notified mail sample:

From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: [sample-section: 1230]

* Revision: 1230
* Author: foo
* Date: 2009-11-22T17:40:47.287888Z
* Message:
The commit log message for this revision here.

* Paths:
M /with/sub/path/somefile1.py
A /with/sub/path/somefile2.py

* Diff:
Index: somefile1.py
===================================================================
--- somefile1.py     (revision 1230)
+++ somefile1.py     (revision 1229)

Requirements

• Python 2.4 or later

Dependencies

• setuptools or distribute

• lxml

• svn external command (1.6 or later)

Features

• polling specified svn repository

• send commit message and diff by email

Setup

Make environment (by easy_install):

$ easy_install svnpoller

Make environment (by buildout):

$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/shimizukawa/svnpoller
$ cd svnpoller
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

Copy and modify ini file. example:

$ cp <svnpoller installed path>/svnpoller/svnpoller.ini .
$ vi svnpoller.ini

Please refer to Setting sample section for the format of the svnpoller.ini configuration file.

Usage

Execute svnpoller command:

$ svnpoller svnpoller.ini

or setup cron job:

$ crontab -e
0 0 * * * /path/to/svnpoller /path/to/svnpoller.ini

History

0.0.6

• Fix: latest revision’s change ware notified every time.

• Add: some tests.

0.0.5

• Add changed path-list to mail-message.

0.0.4

• first release

Todos

• Add notify mechanism when lost target (maybe repository structure was changed)

• Remove lxml dependency (but want to support py2.4).

• Add mercurial(hg) support.

• Add bazaar(bzr) support.

• Introduce customizable mail template.

• Attach diff without printing in the main text.(config?)

• Refactoring.

• Add test: multi url polling

Known Issues

• “–dry-run” update latest revision config value.