Is there a library for monitoring a git repository for any changes?

Is there a library for monitoring a git repository for any changes?

[Robert Martin]

Hi git,

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?

Cheers,


Robert

Re: Is there a library for monitoring a git repository for any changes?

[Magnus Bäck]

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