Re: script to send changesets per mail

[Jeff Garzik]

Martin Waitz wrote:
> hoi :)
>
> I just tested my little script that can send changesets per mail.
> okok, it still had a bug when I first tested it but that should be
> fixed now.
>
> If anyone is interested (perhaps for Documentation/BK-usage), here it
> is:

Putting this in Documentation/BK-usage would be fine.


> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> # after sending an announcement (created by Documentation/BK-usage/bk-make-sum)
> # just pipe your mail through this script.
> # It will create one new mail per Changeset, properly threaded.
>
> # Copyright © 2005 Martin Waitz <tali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> use strict;
>
> my $from;
> my $to;
> my $cc;
> my $references;
>
> # all local repositories are in ~/src/.
> # you have to adjust this function if you keep them elsewhere.
> sub local_repository($) {
> 	my $repo;
> 	
> 	$repo= shift;
>
> 	$repo =~ s,.*/,"$ENV{HOME}/src/",e;
> 	return $repo;
> }
>
> # this checks if we are allowed to send mails with this sender
> # please modify the regexp to check for your adress!
> sub check_from($) {
> 	my $from = shift;
>
> 	exit 1 unless $from =~ /insert-your-email-here/; #FIXME
> }

Move 'insert email here' into a default variable, a variable that can be 
overridden by an environment variable.


> # send one changeset.
> # Parameters: the cset number, description prefix and the actual description.
> sub send_cset($$$$) {
> 	my ($cset, $serial, $desc, $longdesc) = @_;
>
> 	open (MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t") or die "fork sendmail: $!";
> 	print MAIL "From: $from\n";
> 	print MAIL "To: $to\n";
> 	print MAIL "Cc: $cc\n" if $cc;
> 	print MAIL "References: $references\n" if $references;
> 	print MAIL "Subject: [PATCH $serial] $desc\n";
> 	print MAIL "\n";
> 	print MAIL "$desc\n";
> 	print MAIL "$longdesc\n";
> 	print MAIL "\n";
> 	print MAIL `bk export -tpatch -du -r $cset`;
> 	close (MAIL) or die "could not send mail: error code $?";

I would suggest '-hdu' to avoid the patch header, but some may disagree.


> # Parse header
> while (<>) {
> 	chomp;
> 	last if /^$/;
>
> 	if (/^From:\s+(.+)$/i) {
> 		$from = $1;
> 	} elsif (/^To:\s+(.+)$/i) {
> 		$to = $1;
> 	} elsif (/^Cc:\s+(.+)$/i) {
> 		$cc = $1;
> 	} elsif (/^Message-Id:\s+(.+)$/i) {
> 		$references = $1;
> 	}

note that this misses multi-line headers.  multi-line headers are those 
where the second, and succeeding lines begin with whitespace.


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