post_receive_email.py

Introduction

This is a Git post-receive hook script written in Python that will send emails when commits are pushed to the repository. It has no dependencies other than Python and Git (i.e. it does not use sendmail).

Status

The script:

• Always uses TLS when sending emails.
• Sets the Reply-To header to the author of the commit.
• Only handles commits. No effort has yet been made to handle merge commits.

I will continue to develop this script as the need for more functionality arises.

Configuration

The script uses the following configuration variables:

hooks.mailinglist

A comma separted list of email recipients.

hooks.emailprefix

All emails will have their subjects prefixed with the value of this variable

hooks.smtp-subject

If this variable is set the subject line will be formatted according to this template. The format is the same as for Python string interpolation when using dictionaries for the values.

The available keys are:

• %(prefix)s - The value of hooks.emailprefix.
• %(ref_name)s - The ref name sent to post_receive (eg. refs/heads/master)
• %(hash)s - The abbreviated commit hash.
• %(index)s - An individual commit's order number among all the commits being pushed.
• %(message)s - The first line of the commit message.

The default subject template is %(prefix)s %(ref_name)s commit %(hash)s if one commit is being pushed and %(prefix)s %(ref_name)s commit #%(index)s %(hash)s if more than one is being pushed.

hooks.smtp-host

Emails will be sent using this SMTP host.

hooks.smtp-port

This port will be used when communicating with the SMTP host.

hooks.smtp-sender

This is the user that will login to the SMTP host to send emails.

hooks.smtp-sender-password

This password will be used when authenticating the email sender with the SMTP host.

hook.post-receive-logfile

Debuging information will be logged to this file.

Licence

MIT License.