Have you integrated Mantis and Subversion?

Question

I do mostly Windows development. We use Mantis and Subversion for our development but they aren't integrated together, in fact they are on different servers.

I did a little googling about integrating the two together and came across this post. It looked interesting.

I was wondering if anyone is doing this or has done this and what your experience has been. If you've got a different solution, I'd be interested in knowing that too!

Thanks!

Deirdre

I wonder if this works when you have no direct access to the svn repository... still looking for similar questions/answers. – Kunkle

Yes, it worked great for us (which is why I wrote the post). That company used that solution for several years (and may still be using it for all I know). The key for me was learning about subversion hooks, which can be implemented in any language. – Heracliteanism

Answer 1

We've used scmbug for quite some time to link SVN to Bugzilla. Worked very well until we upgraded to Bugzilla 3.2 recently, which broke the integration. It takes a little while for the scmbug team to catch up when new releases of the SCM tools come out, which is understandable.

Aylward

Answer 2

I use Mantis with SVN. Pretty much as that link says, though I put the regexp in the post-commit so it doesn't try to update the bug if the commit message is not relevant, that makes non-bug-updating commits respond slightly faster.

My Mantis install is on a different server too. I use curl to call the php method in Mantis 1.1.6.

Put this in your post-commit.cmd hook (you'll need to download strawberry perl and grab perl.exe and perl510.dll from it, you don't need the rest)

c:\tools\perl c:\tools\mantis_urlencode.pl %1 %2  > c:\temp\postcommit_mantis.txt
if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 exit /b 0

c:\tools\curl -s -d user=svn -d @c:\temp\postcommit_mantis.txt http://swi-sgi-l-web1.ingrnet.com/mantis/core/checkincurl.php

and put this in mantis_urlencode.pl

$url = `svnlook log -r $ARGV[1] $ARGV[0]`;

# check the string contains the matching regexp, 
# quit if it doesn't so we don't waste time contacting the webserver
# this is the g_source_control_regexp value in mantis.

exit 1 if not $url =~ /\b(?:bug|issue|mantis)\s*[#]{0,1}(\d+)\b/i;

$url = $url . "\n" . `svnlook dirs-changed -r $ARGV[1] $ARGV[0]`;

#urlencode the string
$url =~ s/([^\w\-\.\@])/$1 eq " "?"+":  sprintf("%%%2.2x",ord($1))/eg;

print "log=$url";

exit 0;

If you want to migrate from VSS, there are a load of scripts, including one I wrote on codeplex.

It all works well, we use it all the time, and its quick enough not to notice its there. Just type "Fixed Mantis #1234" and it resolves the bug and adds a bugnote to it. The script also adds the directories that were modified to the bugnote too (I tried showing changed files but too many detract from easy understanding)

Hagiarchy

Answer 3

Here's the Subversion post-commit script we use. It uses PHP to run the Mantis checkin PHP script as suggested in this link in the original post.

Reifel

Answer 4

I came across scmbug. Looks like it will hook up things like Mantis to things like Subversion.

Deirdre

Answer 5

We followed the steps in your link - the only difference is that on Windows you have post-commit.bat instead. If you scroll down someone posts a sample. We modified that so it logs the files changed and who changed them - a fairly easy hack to the batch file. We tried including the diffs at one point - but it was obvious pretty quickly that doing that is a bad idea because of the size of some checkins.

It works really well and I'm really happy - now I have to move all our Sourcesafe stuff across...

Rustler

Answer 6

I am personally using a private SVN repository on my local development environment using VisualSVN Server and a public Mantis bug tracker. I had to change the checkin.php file a bit to handle calls from a web server (with help of this web page: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=8847)

I have made a short C# console application to handle this instead of a batch file, so it is more configurable and supports remote or local checkin.php files.

I have posted an article about this on my blog with the source code if you are interested: http://mp4m.org/blog/svn-and-mantis-bug-tracker-integration/

Hope that helps!

Songstress