Preferences - Broadcast

This page is used to control broadcast-related options.

Automatically broadcast commit message to

This option specifies whether and to whom to send an automatically generated message describing the commits you make. Use the Change button to select the user(s) and group(s) that should be the recipients of the commit messages. The message will look like this:

Subject: Commit involving project MyProject
The following were committed
/MyProject/src/main/Main2.java
/MyProject/src/main/Main3.java

Only commits involving files trigger this mechanism, so for example committing a new empty folder does not produce a message.

Subject line prefix

This option specifies the subject line prefix used in constructing the message subject. The project names involved in the commit will be appended after the prefix.

Delay (in minutes)

This option specifies the delay in minutes between the last commit and the message broadcast. If you are performing multiple commits in sequence, this provides a way to batch all the changes into a single message rather than a message for each individual commit. The default is five minutes.

Modified prefix

This option determines the label prefix used to trigger the commit message. It defaults to the the right angle bracket (">") which is the character used by the CVS label decorators to indicate a file that has been modified but not yet checked in. The change in that prefix (it is removed when the file is checked in) triggers the commit message broadcast.