[darcs-users] Fwd: Execute Automatic command with each commit

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:08PM -0500, Nathan Gray wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:32:32AM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:
> > On 2/24/06, Nathan Gray <kolibrie at graystudios.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:22:11PM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:
> > > >  Look at posthooks in the darcs manual.  If you have any problems
> > > > with them let me know I should be able to help.
> > >
> > > I would like to know which files have been updated with the record,
> > > so that I can pass that information to my posthook script.  I vaguely
> > > remember something about storing that info in environment variables.
> > 
> > As far as I know no one has implemented that yet.  One hackish way to
> > do would be to look at file modification times.  Store in a file the
> > time stamps of all the files in the directory and time stamps which
> > change would indicate files that have been updated.  It's not perfect
> > but probably the quickest to implement.  You could probably just write
> > the output of ls with date information to a file, diff that with the
> > data from the previous time, extract the files names which have
> > changed and then use those names.
> > 
> > I doubt it would be hard to implement, but  I'm stalled from doing any
> > darcs development at the moment with real life demands.
> 
> I wrote a script last year that does something like what you suggest,
> and I also entered a ticket (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue524).
> 
> I'm not sure where about in the source code to start looking (nor am
> I confident in my Haskell skills).
> 
> Anyone have a moment to look into this?

If you're interested in darcs record, why not just add to your
_darcs/prefs/defaults

record --run-posthook
record --posthook darcs annotate -p . -s | mail -s 'new record' foo at bar

or something to that effect?
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University