Ability to rewrite URLs

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Currently, the plugin reports the local URL the commit was made in. It should be able to rewrite that URL to something other users will be able to pull from.

[Matthieu Moy (matthieu-moy)]

This is available in my branch.

https://launchpad.net/people/matthieu-moy/+branch/bzr-email/moy

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I just checked out your branch. It'd be useful if it could rewrite just part of the URL. I keep a whole set of bzr branches in one directory and mirror that directory on some remote server. I would like to be able to specify a rewrite rule that replaces part of a local URL with a remote URL, for example:

file:///home/jelmer/bzr.samba/ -> http://people.samba.org/bzr/jelmer/samba

Otherwise I will have to set a rewrite URL for each branch I create.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

In the bzr-pqm plugin (formerly known as pqm-submit), we use repository configuration to do this.
So you can set:
[/home/foobar/repo]
public_repository=http://foobar/repo

And then when you run 'bzr pqm-submit' it will check and see what the repository is for the current branch, and tack on whatever relative path it needs to, to turn that into a public location.

I think it would be good to leverage what we've done with bzr-pqm
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr-pqm

It isn't perfect yet, but since we both have the same need (translate a local path into a public path). I think it could be good to share.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

You can use "public_branch=XXX" to get this effect. The code does:

    def url(self):
        """What URL to display in the subject of the mail"""
        url = self.config.get_user_option('post_commit_url')
        if url is None:
            url = self.config.get_user_option('public_branch')
        if url is None:
            url = self.branch.base
        return url