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From: "Magnus Bäck" <baeck@google.com>
To: Robert Martin <rdmartin3@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a library for monitoring a git repository for any changes?
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:00:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130607130042.GA28057@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABaQ0JgJaCY-LXHjXMq_7NTgHf2GqN4Ond7rm61jfLAV-gEgRQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, June 06, 2013 at 23:16 EDT,
     Robert Martin <rdmartin3@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to work on a visualization program for git. I was hoping there
> was a library that would allow me to monitor a git repo for changes.
> Consider it like inotify, but for a git repository (in fact, I think
> it would probably have inotify under the hood).
> 
> This hypothetical library would trigger an event any time the
> repository was modified, i.e. any time the graph that represents
> history was changed.
> 
> Is there such a library? If not, is there a better way to monitor the
> repository so that I wouldn't need to write it myself? Would anyone
> else be interested if I wrote it myself?

'git ls-remote'? Either run periodically or, if the monitored git is
local, triggered via inotify. If you have control over the git perhaps
a post-receive hook would be useful too.

-- 
Magnus Bäck
baeck@google.com

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-07 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-07  3:16 Is there a library for monitoring a git repository for any changes? Robert Martin
2013-06-07 13:00 ` Magnus Bäck [this message]

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