[Monotone-devel] Update to notification script

[Matthew Sackman]

Hi,

Right, well, due to the continuously locked mtn db for servers, it makes
notification scripts a bit more complex. The patch attached does roughly
the following:

1) The normal netsync hooks are used to construct files in _base. These
   specify where emails should be sent which has not changed (notify
   file in the confdir with the same structure as read_permissions).
2) Use cron or similar to call the .sh script. Make sure _base == $BASE
3) The .sh script reads the file and pulls from the server to a local
   db. This should be unused by everyone else. It then does mtn parents,
   mtn diff and uses source-highlight and mime-construct to build up one
   email per new revision which is properly mime structured. The
   resulting mime formatted mails have been testing in mutt,
   thunderbird/icedove and gnus. Finally, it sends the mail.

Can someone have a look over this and commit it in please?

It's obviously *nix only. Hopefully, it's not bash only, but it may well
be (does sh have arrays?). Meh, if you care, you probably know how to
fix it ;-)

This is a patch against the existing
contrib/monotone-mail-notify-standalone.lua script as it's adding a load
of new features (diffs and proper structuring of the mail).

Matthew
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Matthew Sackman
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