CVSspam : Notification of CVS commits, by email

About

CVSspam emails you diffs when a change is committed to your CVS repository. These HTML mails hyperlink to further details and use styling to emphasise information structure.

Example

See a basic example and an artificially complicated test case email.

Features

• Every email includes colourised unified-diffs for all changed text files, and the committer's log comment.
• Configurable limits prevent emails becoming too large.
• If configured, mails can include links to Bugzilla bugs, RT tickets and JIRA issues, from specially formated log messages.
• If configured, mails can include links to a ViewCVS, CVSweb or Chora view of your repository. Particularly useful for seeing binary image files before and after a change.
• Written in Ruby.

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Current

0.2.12 2005-07-11

cvsspam-0.2.12.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.11:

• Email addresses parsed from CVSROOT/users are now stripped of any surrounding quotes, thanks to a patch from Elan Ruusamäe.
• A numbering error that caused links from the top-of-mail index to point at the file next to the one they should have pointed at was fixed; as reported by several people.
• Ricardo Pardini provided a patch that handles [[Wiki Links]] in the commit log comment.
• Newer versions of Ruby don't allow scripts to modify their command-line arguments, so CVSspam altered to avoid doing that. (A problem that was introduced in release 0.2.11 while trying to fix another issue; thanks to Sven Köhler for checking this).
• Improve email address handling, so that we can now encode non-ASCII characters in any 'personal name' part of an address. Elan Ruusamäe pointed out the lack of encoding.
• Per a suggestion by Corporate Gadfly, the presence of the -kb 'sticky option' on a file now causes CVSspam to avoid producing a diff for that file; handy when diff's inbuilt binary-file detection heuristic fails. The -kb option can be specified when files are added to the repository, or added later with cvs admin.
• It is now possible to specify a charset for emails in the CVSROOT/loginfo configuration file (so the setting can vary between CVS modules). This feature was implemented by Elan Ruusamäe.
• Handle the case where someone has checked out the entire repository (cvs co .); avoid creating email subjects with prefix '[CVS .]'. Thanks to Christopher Petro for the patch.
• Allow the internal $max_lines_per_diff option to be set to nil, meaning 'no limit', following Christopher Petro's suggestion.
• The CSS formatting for the 'commit log comment' portion of the email now allows long lines to be broken, in mail clients that support this feature.
• The documentation now gives an overview of the install process before diving into a description of the steps.
• Notification of commits to a given, single file can now be automatically threaded together by mail clients that support this, thanks to a suggestion by Elan Ruusamäe.

Previous

0.2.11 2004-08-24

cvsspam-0.2.11.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.10:

• Stop commits from some Mac CVS clients breaking the Subject, and all following headers
• Stop a '.' appearing on a line on its own in the commit log comment breaking this, and subsequent notification emails
• Made the $no_removed_file_diff option work
• Implemented a $no_added_file_diff option to suppress inclusion of diffs containing the contents of added files, and a $no_diff option, for supression diffs entirely
• Tried to fix breakage of the tag in the email subject (which creates text like #<Repository:0x402d08c4>, rather than the name of the top-level CVS project directory). Fix unconfirmed
• Altered some of the HTML-generating code making it less likely to produce super-long lines in the email markup
• Fixed unescaped ampersand in the HTML
• Supply missing repository_name attribute to CVSweb code

0.2.10 2004-08-24

cvsspam-0.2.10.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.9:

• The expansion of a CVS username in CVSROOT/users may now contain whitespace, although we may still not be properly handling quotes in this file
• A 2 megabyte limit is placed on the amount of diff output included in emails. The limit is soft; we are allowed to pass the limit to prevent truncating a file's diff midway (but note that a seperate limit on the number of lines in an individual file's diff already exists)
• When using SMTP directly to send mail, a date header is now included, as its lack broke most mail-reader's sort-by-date functionality
• Fixes problems in commitinfo argument parsing that would prevent CVSspam working with the CVS 1.12.x series
• Work around occasional received broken pipe signal errors from CVS, in at least some cases

0.2.9 2004-05-10

cvsspam-0.2.9.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.8:

• Take sender email addresses from the CVSROOT/users config file, if it exists
• Truncate super-long lines in diff output
• Fix an error generating the email subject under certain circumstances
• Multi-repository support for CVSweb

0.2.8 2003-09-23

cvsspam-0.2.8.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.7:

• Support sending email using Net::SNMP for people with no MTA on their CVS server
• Support ViewCVS's multiple-repository feature
• Documentation improvements
• Fix some 'uninitialized variable' warnings

0.2.7 2003-07-12

cvsspam-0.2.7.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.6:

• Any CVS branch name is included in the email subject, and the names of files commited may be added too
• CVSweb is now a supprted web front-end
• The script can make better From addresses when using a CVS pserver with aliased usernames, using a new --user flag
• JIRA issue numbers and RT ticket numbers can be made into links from the log comment

0.2.6 2003-03-24

cvsspam-0.2.6.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.5:

• Fix temp-file security problems (and honour $TMPDIR)
• Encode non-ASCII characters in the email Subject header (per RFC2047)
• Support Chora as well as ViewCVS
• When all files where commited on the same branch, don't display the branch name against every file
• Make each component of a file's path into a link, and carry any branch name though to the dir-view (ViewCVS only)
• Tries to generate X-Originating-IP header for remote CVS commits
• Fixed more HTML issues

0.2.5 2003-01-15

cvsspam-0.2.5.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.4:

• Supports committing to many top-level projects under a CVSROOT at once, which used to cause an infinite loop
• Now reports branch name for deleted files (as well as added or modified ones)
• Changes in RCS keywords may now be suppressed in diff output (e.g. changes in $Revision: 1.1 $ number)
• The contents of files that are being removed may be excluded from mails
• The the character-encoding specified in the mail headers is configurable
• Small tweaks to the message formatting

0.2.4 2002-11-17

cvsspam-0.2.4.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.3:

• Really use the $cvs_prog from the config file
• Prevent error on adding directory to CVS
• Make URLs and email addresses from log comment into links in HTML
• Fix some cases of broken HTML generation
• Improved formatting

0.2.3 2002-11-02

cvsspam-0.2.3.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.2:

• Truncate diff output after 1000 lines
• Make files in the same dir easier to spot in the top-of-mail index
• Make bug-regexp match more possibilities
• Fix some broken HTML syntax

0.2.2 2002-10-30

cvsspam-0.2.2.tar.gz

Changes since 0.2.1:

• Diff output not (less?) broken
• Generates prefixes like [CVS repositoryname] for mail subjects
• In some versions of ruby there was a syntax error
• On some setups it complained about diff having failed, when it hadn't
• Displays branch names and versions (with viewcvs links) in the top-of-mail file index
• Binary and Empty files only appear in the top-of-mail index, not in the 'diffs' section
• If the only change on a line is the dos vs. unix line type, try to highlight that
• Restricts length of the subject to 200 chars
• Tweaked HTML a bit for Evolution (but still no colour highlights)

0.2.1 2002-10-13

cvsspam-0.2.1.tar.gz

• Initial release of port from Perl to Ruby

Contact

Email questions, bug reports, feature requests and patches to the development mailing list cvsspam-devel

Related Software

Other CVS commit-notifiers:

• cvsmail
• CVSreport
• cvs-syncmail
• cvsmailer
• DevGuy cvsnotify
• CVSMailer
• activitymail
• CVSToys
• cvscommit
• cvslog
• commitmessage
• deluxeloginfo
• dcvs-mailcommit
• lalaCVSMail

Web frontends to CVS supported by CVSspam:

• ViewCVS
• Chora
• CVSweb

Issue/bug-trackers supported by CVSspam:

• Bugzilla
• JIRA
• RT

Many Satisfied Customers!

The outlook express spell checker offers the word Cesspit as a replacement for the misspelled word CVSspam.

— Matthew Lenz

CVSspam - nomen est omen!

— Sascha Sadeghian

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— George Marrows

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— Harry Jackson