[SVN-3096] Default perl script for notifying commits by email should be improved

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.x
• Fix Version/s: nonblocking
• Component/s: tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 07/Feb/08 13:04
• Updated: 03/Jul/08 21:21

Description

Default perl script for notifying commits by email should be improved:

Currently the scheme of the content sent by mail is:

Author: {username}
Date: {date}
New Revision: {rev number}

Added:
   {file1}
   {file2}
Removed:
   {file3}
Modified:
   {file4}
Log:
{commit message}

Modified: {file4}
===================================================================
--- {file4}	{date} (rev {rev number})
+++ {file4}	{date} (rev {rev number})
{diff contents}


List of suggested changes:
- Log message should be shown before the summary of changes (files added,
modified, removed).
- The list of changes should be added, instead of inline, with an attachment, in
order to be able to:
a) Delete attachments in your mail client tool in order to reduce disk space usage.
b) Extract the diff file as a patch that you can commit to other branches if you
want to.

Original issue reported by knocte