Please make commit-email accept an extra option to specify a table of
committers, /etc/passwd style (notably, it'd be nice if by default the
system's getent is used, or at least it's configurable to use it).

In addition, it should also accept a simpler format.

This would allow commit mails to be sent out with a full From: header of
the committer.

Given this entry:

jeroen:Jeroen van Wolffelaar:jeroen@wolffelaar.nl

or, this entry:

jeroen:x:1000:1001:Jeroen van Wolffelaar,,,:/home/jeroen:/bin/bash

a From: header of "Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>" should
be contructed then.

Please let me know if you'd accept a patch in principle implementing
this feature, as I'll then write one.

Hi Jeroen,

* Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> [2004-12-02 20:38:13 +0100]:
 I would like to see this feature as well.
 I am strongly choose the first one for several reasons; like contains
the email address, contains everything what needed (the second one is a
bit overkill if you have a mailing list entry, and you have to fake
uid/gid etc, and also mistakeable by the ',' for example).
 First the warning: I am a co-maintainer of Subversion, but David has a
veto right on committing anything. Anyway, I would like to see and test
any patch you propose.

Regards,
Laszlo/GCS
Ps: Any news about Bernd S. Brentrup? As far as I can remember Martin
(DPL) referred his availability to you.

It was meant as an addition, to also _accept_ those. For example, on a
subversion setup at my study association, I'd point email-commit.pl to
the system's user table, and thus don't need to maintain a table of
names. Email addresses are to be generated the same way as they are now
(appending a configurable fixed domain).

I'll make something.

Thanks,
--Jeroen

* Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> [2004-12-02 22:07:21 +0100]:
 Well, I still do not get it. The system's user table 101% will contain
entries that you do not want to send commit mails (root, postmaster or
dumb system users like list, proxy, www-data).
 You can get that from /etc/mailname .
 Thanks in advance, and sorry that I do not have time to do it on my
own.

Regards,
Laszlo/GCS

Hi,

In general I'd like to see changes like this integrated into upstream
directly rather than adding the feature just for Debian.  I'd like to
avoid maintaining non-Debian-specific changes to the Subversion
packages as it is more maintenance, and generally useful features
should be generally available.  I'm hinting here that you could make
this suggestion, along with a patch, on the subversion mailing list
(subversion.tigris.org).  If the patch gets accepted into upstream
then we ar all set.  We can either back-port it to the version in
Debian, or else the new feature will automatically appear.

tags 283992 upstream
thanks

I'd be happy to commit such a patch to the upstream Subversion project,
if you still feel like writing it.

Max.

tags 283992 upstream
thanks

I'd be happy to commit such a patch to the upstream Subversion project,
if you still feel like writing it.

Max.

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