Install SVN::Notify on CentOS

This assumes you already have an SVN repository setup.

First download perl pre-requisites:

yum install perl-CPAN
perl -MCPAN -e 'install SVN::Notify'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install SVN::Notify::HTML::ColorDiff'

or

yum install perl
perl -MCPAN -e 'install SVN::Notify'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install SVN::Notify::HTML::ColorDiff'

Next download SVN Notify from CPAN:

cd /home
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DW/DWHEELER/SVN-Notify-2.83.tar.gz
tar zxf SVN-Notify-2.83.tar.gz
cd SVN-Notify-2.83/

Next run MAKE:

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

If that doesn’t work then try:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Now change to your SVN directory and then to the hooks directory:

cd /%SVN LOCATION HERE%/hooks/

Create a post-commit file using vim:

vim post-commit

Add this to the file (replace: to-mail@domain.com/from-mail@domain.com/reply-mail@domain.com

#!/bin/sh
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
/usr/local/bin/svnnotify -r $REV -C -d -H HTML::ColorDiff \
-p $REPOS -t to-mail@domain.com --from from-mail@domain.com \
--reply-to reply-mail@domain.com

Save the script and give it execution permission:

chmod +x post-commit

Now every time someone commits to the SVN repository, an email notification will be sent.