Ubuntu How To

So, once we set up our svn and SVNManager in Ubuntu, it would probably be nice to get emails every time a user in the repository makes a commit.
Svnmanager supports the post create script, which will be fired every time a new repository gets created. Lets start:

sudo gedit /var/www/svnmanager/config.php


at the end of the config, uncomment and edit the line to:

$post_create_script = "/bin/bash /var/www/newrepo-script";

Now lets create the newrepo-script:


$post_create_script = "/bin/bash /var/www/newrepo-script";


And add these lines:

#!/bin/bash

cp -R /var/www/repo-templates/* $1/hooks/

which pretty much just tells to copy the content of the templates folder to the newly created repository’s /hooks/ directory. /hooks directory will execute the hooks that we place there on each event that we create. We will add post-commit hook for this example.


cd /var/www
sudo mkdir repo-templates


now the hook


sudo gedit post-commit


Add these lines and save:

#!/bin/sh

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

/usr/bin/svnnotify                    
    --repos-path    "$REPOS"                
    --revision      "$REV"                  
    --subject-cx                            
    --with-diff                             
    --handler       HTML::ColorDiff         
    --to            to_email@email.com   
    --from          root@localhost

Feel free to edit the email addresses. Now we need to make the script executable:


sudo chmod +x post-commit


Make sure that you have svnnotify package. Type:

which svnnotify


and if it shows the path, make sure it is the same as we made in post-commit file, if not, edit post-commit file. If path doesn’t show, chances are you don’t have the package installed. Install it by:


sudo apt-get install libsvn-notify-perl


This should do it. If you want to send the emails to every user in the repository, you may have to edit the hook. I found another good tutorial about it here.

Update: I created the hook the way I wanted it, for complete code visit this page – svn post-commit hook in Ubuntu.

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