I’ve been really getting into developing my KickTweet project and set up a Twitter account for it at http://twitter.com/KickTweet. I wanted to feed in my subversion commits so I did some searching.

What I found was twitvn a monstrous (50-ish ‘real lines) Python script that sends commits to Twitter. I find that ridiculous. So here is my version, it drops right into the post-commit script and could be reduced to 2-3 active lines.

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#!/bin/bash
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
 
TWEET="SVN Log (r$REV): $(svnlook log $REPOS -r $REV)"
curl -u KickTweet:mySecretPassword -d status="${TWEET:0:139}" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Note that the use of the ‘${TWEET:0:139}’ is a definite bashism, and not portable.

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#!/bin/bash
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
 
TWEET="SVN Log (r$REV): $(svnlook log $REPOS -r $REV)"
 
if [ "${#TWEET}" -gt 140 ]; then
  TWEET="${TWEET:0:137}..."
fi
 
curl -u KickTweet:mySecretPassword -d status="${TWEET:0:139}" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml