Saiweb

Again this is a late blog post about some code committed several months ago, in this case the code was committed 09/06/2009

It is a very short python script to force a subversion commit message to be greater than 10 characters in length

Installation:

svn export http://svn.saiweb.co.uk/branches/python/svn_force_message.py /path/to/your/svn/hooks/pre-commit
chmod +x /path/to/your/svn/hooks/pre-commit

Note installation this way will replace your current pre-commit hooks file.

Tweet

Some two months after the fact, I thought it may well be time to post a blog on this little code snippet.

As some of you have noticed every commit message to my subversion repository is infact updating my twitter.

This code was uploaded to subversion on 10/06/2009, so sorry for the late write up!

Requirements

Python 2.5 or higher
Subversion server

Installation

• svn co http://svn.saiweb.co.uk/branches/python/svn_tweeter.py /usr/bin/svn_tweeter
• chmod +x /usr/bin/svn_tweeter
• cd /path/to/svn/hooks
• Edit post-commit with your favorite text editor

Now try a commit, and check your syslog for entries from the script.

Aug 24 11:36:26 132 python: SVN_TWEETER: http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json query complete

UPDATE 24/03/2011 Twitter has removed basic authentication, you must use oauth (admittedly it has been like this for a fair while now) use this nagios_bot insteadTweet