SVN-related tools

Question

I'm getting more and more annoyed about some processes that could probably be automatically improved.

Indeed, I would like to know if there are some tools that manage to:

• "force" commit message structure
• generate automatic changelog between two specific tags
• notify users by email when a maintenance branch (actually, any branch we want) is created

Of course, I could do these by myself (not necessarily easy but doable), I just don't want to waste my time reinventing the wheel.

We're using Subversion, Hudson and Trac at work, just in case some of their plugins could do that.

Answer 1

1. "force" by using a pre-commit hook script which checks the format ...
2. get the revisions of the tags an use svn2cl
3. any kind of mailing tool in post-commit hook script...URL for references is given in other answer.

Answer 2

I think your best bet would be to add post-commit hook scripts in subversion.

Relevant page in the SVN book is here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.create.html#svn.reposadmin.create.hooks