Item9238: Add %REPO macro in Repository Plugin

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Enhancement	Being Worked On	Extension	RepositoryPlugin?	Main.GeorgeClark

There is no easy way to see from a Running svn or git checkout what actual rev number is being tested.

Add a small Plugin to BuildContrib lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BuildContribPlugin.pm It will implement the %REPO macro to query the git or svn repository:

• REPO{"lastlog"} Report log from most recent commit
• REPO{"rev"} Pull the "Revision" field from git svn info or svn info command
• REPO{"isodate"} Report the date/timestamp from the repository in iso format
• REPO{"lastauthor"} Report the Author of the most recent commit

Another option might be to pull the info and log data into tokens for use in a format string.

• REPO{"info" format="$isodate, $rev, $lastauthor, $lastrev, $root, $uuid"}
• REPO{"log" number="n"} - report the last n log messages, default = 1

Any other requests, objections or suggestions?

-- GeorgeClark - 02 Jul 2010

Sounds good, as discussed on IRC - although a small part of me is thinking that this might be less useful than I think, particularly when testing in mod_perl environments.

I wouldn't be too fussed about formatting tokens, although it would be nice.

Really need to get BuildContrib to work happily from a git checkout during build :/

-- PaulHarvey - 02 Jul 2010

I changed status to "Being worked on" because it needs a specific name in Waiting for Feedback. This is interesting, though I don't think I'd find it that useful. Because my test runs are almost always preceded by an svn update, I have a good idea what rev I'm testing.

Changed from Normal to Enhancement

-- CrawfordCurrie - 28 Aug 2010

Changing this to a separate extension - RepositoryPlugin? .

-- GeorgeClark - 03 Jan 2011