Re: A script that keeps track of your favorite Git/SVN projects?

From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
Date: Mar 24, 2008, 04:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0803232051320.6107@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com>
In-Reply-To: <fbede933c733.47e73470@broadpark.no>

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, "Kyrre Nygård" wrote:

> Hi there, Hasanybody ever written a script that keeps track of your 
> favorite Git(and SVN) projects? E.g. sends you an e-mail every time a 
> revision hasbeen made, with details like the summary, time and date, 
> author andcode differences.

I don't know of a "subscribe to a source repository" program myself, actually.

> I've modified a few projects to my liking, somuch that any change made 
> to the original would have to be addedmanually. I also think it would be 
> a great way to learn.

It does seem interesting!

> I can't imagine anything better than a neat little Ruby script stacked 
> inside my crontab. I'm still a rookie though, otherwise I'd have made my 
> own already.

The other thing you might do is run git-svn nightly, and have post-commit hook for git that emails out the diffs you like.

Whatever you do, keep me posted!

-- Asheesh.

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