darcs-monitor reads one or more darcs(1) repositories and sends email about every change it has not
previously sent an email about to the same address. To have darcs-monitor run every time someone pushes
to a repository, add the following lines to _darcs/prefs/defaults.
applyposthookdarcs-monitor--charset=charsetemailrecipient [ emailrecipient ... ]
applyrun-posthook
In the above, charset should be the MIME charset that patches (including their metadata) are in, and
recipient should be the email address where emails should be sent. You can specify more than one
recipient by repeating the email parameter.
You can also run darcs-monitor from crontab(1) or from the command line. In those cases, it is easiest
to specify the path to the repository on the command line after other arguments. In fact, you can
specify more than one.
By default, mail is sent by calling /usr/sbin/sendmail. Another sendmail(1) binary can be specified by
using a command-line switch.
You can customise the email by providing a template. You should put your own template in the file
_darcs/third-party/darcs-monitor/email-template (you can use other files, but then you have to specify
where it is). In the template you can use the following substitutions:
%RECIPIENT%
the email address to which email is sent
%DIFF% the Darcs-provided diff -u of the patch
%CHANGES%
a Darcs-provided summary of changes
%REPO% the path to the repository
%SHORTREPO%
the final component of the path to the repository
%AUTHOR%
the patch author
%DATE% the patch date
%HASH% the patch Darcs hash
%TITLE%
the patch name
%COMMENT%
the patch comment
Also, in the template, two percent signs in sequence (%%) start a comment that extends to the end of the
current line.