Re: Notification hooks

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:21:29AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 06:18:55PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:12, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > Linus, is there anyway I can request a hook so that anything that
> > > changes drivers/ieee1394/ in your repo sends me an email with the diff
> > > for just the files in that directory, and the changeset log? Is this
> > > something that bkbits can do?
> > > 
> > > I'd bet lots of ppl would like similar hooks for their portions of the
> > > source.
> > 
> > well there is the bk commits list that has all individual changesets.
> > Add procmail and the patchutils program "grepdiff" to the recipe and I
> > think we have a winner.....
> 
> I suspect you want to look at all the files in the cset.  I think what
> you want is a script which is given a list of files and sends a patch
> for each new changeset which touches any of those files.  Because if 
> a changeset touched drivers/ieee1394/ and include/something then you
> probably want both.
> 
> bk help triggers.

Well, if it affects more than just the files I am interested in, I only
want the diff for those files, but the changeset log and files-affected
for the whole changeset.

If I want the full diff I can go to bkbits or the archive of the commit
list.

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