Easiest/best way to set up SVN commit emails?

Question

I\'d like to set up commit emails on a project I\'m work on, as described here:
http://producingoss.com/en/vc.html#commit-emails

That is, use a post commit hoo

Answer 1

We use svnmailer for this. We symlink our repository-specific post-commit hook scripts to a single script, which in turn calls svnmailer. The configuration is pretty straight forward, and with their simple.conf example configuration you can be up and running in a few minutes. Note that it is written in Python, so that is a prerequisite to installation.

Our entire post-commit hook script is only a few lines (note that you might do other stuff in your post-commit hook, but we currently don't):

#!/bin/sh

CONFIG="/usr/local/svnmailer/default.conf"
MAILER="/usr/bin/svn-mailer"

# These are passed in by subversion
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

"${MAILER}" --commit \
            --config "${CONFIG}" \
            --repository "${REPOS}" \
            --revision "${REV}" \
            --background