Re: CVS diffs via mail

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> But, er, isn't the logfile thing run after *all* the files in the
> batch have been committed?

(For the convenience of `somebody' who wants to do this.)

I have just confirmed that this is not the case.  You get one message
per file, where %{sVv} expands into stuff like

'path/to/dir filename,old,new'

Note the ticks and the space and the commas.  `old' and `new' are the
version numbers, of course.

Problem is: the path/to/dir changes.  Suppose you have a CVS
repository /foo/cvsroot with subdirs gnus and w3.

Users who say `cvs -d /foo/cvsroot co .' will produce `gnus/lisp
gnus.el' for the path and file name.  But users who say `cvs -d
/foo/cvsroot co gnus' will produce `lisp gnus.el'.  Strange.

But the program that's run can read stuff from stdin, and that pretty
clearly shows which file was affected.

In my loginfo, I have the following line:

/----
| ALL /usr/bin/mailx -s "cvs ci %{sVv}" emacs-rcp@ls6
\----

I get mails like the following:

/----
| From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
| Subject: cvs ci 'rcp/lisp rcp.el,1.274,1.275'
| To: emacs-rcp@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de
| Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:24:49 +0200
| X-From-Line: emacs-rcp-request@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de Sat Apr 22 20:27:50 2000
| Resent-From: emacs-rcp@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de
| 
| Update of /services/emacs-rcp/cvsroot/rcp/lisp
| In directory lucy:/export/home/grossjoh/work/emacs-rcp/rcp/lisp
| 
| Modified Files:
| 	rcp.el 
| Log Message:
| Meaningless change to test the loginfo script
| 
| 
\----

Hope this helps as a guide.
kai
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