CVSspam

About

Noting that,

a. CVS can be made to send 'spam' emails on every commit

b. Systems such as SpamAssassin have trouble identifing these for what they are (that is, 'spam')

c. SpamAssassin hates HTML email

we present CVSspam, a system for flagging CVS commit mails with HTML-colourisation-goop.

Example

See a basic example and an artificially complicated test case email.

Features

• Every email includes colourised unified-diffs for all changed text files, and the commiter's log comment.
• If configured, mails can include links to Bugzilla bugs, from specially formated log messages.
• If configured, mails can include links to a ViewCVS or Chora view of your repository. Particularly useful for seeing binary image files before and after a change.
• Written in Ruby. You do have it installed, don't you?

Documentation

Read the documentation in HTML or PDF formats.

Download

New releases are announced on freshmeat.

Current

2003-03-24 cvsspam-0.2.6.tar.gz ~25kB

• Fix temp-file security problems (and honour $TMPDIR)
• Encode non-ASCII characters in the email Subject header (per RFC2047)
• Support Chora as well as ViewCVS
• When all files where commited on the same branch, don't display the branch name against every file
• Make each component of a file's path into a link, and carry any branch name though to the dir-view (ViewCVS only)
• Tries to generate X-Originating-IP header for remote CVS commits
• Fixed more HTML issues

Previous

2003-01-15 cvsspam-0.2.5.tar.gz ~23kB

• Supports committing to many top-level projects under a CVSROOT at once, which used to cause an infinite loop
• Now reports branch name for deleted files (as well as added or modified ones)
• Changes in RCS keywords may now be suppressed in diff output (e.g. changes in $Revision$ number)
• The contents of files that are being removed may be excluded from mails
• The the character-encoding specified in the mail headers is configurable
• Small tweaks to the message formatting

2002-11-17 cvsspam-0.2.4.tar.gz ~20kB

• Really use the $cvs_prog from the config file
• Prevent error on adding directory to CVS
• Make URLs and email addresses from log comment into links in HTML
• Fix some cases of broken HTML generation
• Improved formatting

2002-11-02 cvsspam-0.2.3.tar.gz ~22kB

• Truncate diff output after 1000 lines
• Make files in the same dir easier to spot in the top-of-mail index
• Make bug regexp match more possibilities
• Fix some broken HTML syntax

2002-10-30 cvsspam-0.2.2.tar.gz ~19kB

• Diff output not (less?) broken
• Generates prefixes like [CVS repositoryname] for mail subjects
• In some versions of ruby there was a syntax error
• On some setups it complained about diff having failed, when it hadn't
• Displays branch names and versions (with viewcvs links) in the top-of-mail file index
• Binary and Empty files only appear in the top-of-mail index, not in the 'diffs' section
• If the only change on a line is the dos vs. unix line type, try to highlight that
• Restricts length of the subject to 200 chars
• Tweaked HTML a bit for Evolution (but still no colour highlights)

2002-10-13 cvsspam-0.2.1.tar.gz ~19kB

Contact

Email questions, bug reports, feature requests and patches to the cvsspam-devel mailing list.

Related Projects

Other software doing the same thing

• cvsmail
• CVSreport
• cvs-syncmail
• cvsmailer
• DevGuy cvsnotify
• CVSMailer
• activitymail

Software supported by CVSspam

Web frontends to CVS

• ViewCVS
• Chora
• CVSweb

Bug/Issue tracking

• Bugzilla
• JIRA

"The outlook express spell checker offers the word Cesspit as a replacement for the misspelled word CVSspam"

— Matthew Lenz