It is often desirable to send mail about new changes to software to a mailing list as soon as they are committed to a version control repository. Darcs-monitor adds this functionality to Darcs, an advanced revision control system. Darcs-monitor is most commonly used as a Darcs apply post-hook, so that email is sent as soon as changes are pushed to the repository under monitoring. Mails sent by darcs-monitor are configurable, and they can contain the diff of the changes, as well as change metadata. You will need a mail transport agent (MTA) such as Exim in all but the most unusual situations. More
2010-09-08