[Asterisk-Dev] New SVN email subject

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:14 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:56, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > Mark Hulber wrote:
> > > One thing I liked about the old CVS emails was that I could see
> > > what was being changed by just looking at the subject liine and
> > > then I'd look if it appeared interesting.
> > >    *Now:*    [asterisk-commits] trunk - commit revision 7221
> > >
> > >    *Then: *   [Asterisk-cvs] asterisk/channels
> > > chan_sip.c,1.863,1.864
> >
> > Well, the problem with that is the number of files in the commit can
> > be far too many for the subject to handle... and if only one file out
> > of 20 is listed it may not be one you care about, so then you'd skip
> > the message. It was less of an issue with CVS because it would
> > generate a separate email message for each directory that got
> > changes, but with SVN there will only be a single message for each
> > commit.
> 
> Perhaps the first line of the commit message would be appropriate for
> the Subject, as it often gives a better description of the purpose of
> the commit.

While you are at that kind of suggestions, maybe a header line each with
the files being modified. 

Although a filter on either the body or headers shouldn't be too hard to
write. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>