TeamCity SVN Commit Message

Question

I'm using automated deployments with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy. Each build is triggered by a commit to the SVN Repository.

I'd like to use the commit message, eg "Made some small changes to the layout page" to be used as the release notes on the Octopus Deploy release that I create. Does anyone know which variable I can use in TeamCity to populate this?

I've used several parameters (vcsroot.name.url, vcsroot.url as recommended on another question) as well as vcsroot.labelingMessage but that just sticks in a default message.

Is this possible? It would be great to send an email to the business test users that informs them exactly what has changed. I can then get the developers to be more descriptive about what they committed.

Answer 1

There is no parameter in TeamCity that contains commit message. You can get commit message inside your build script using revision number stored in build.vcs.number.<VCS root ID>. For example like this svn log -r <revision_number> --username <user> --password <password> <url>.