gicowa 1.2.5

GitHub Commit Watcher

Official documentation here.

gicowa.py - GitHub Commit Watcher

GitHub’s Watch feature doesn’t send notifications when commits are pushed. This script aims to implement this feature and much more.

Installation

$ sudo apt-get install sendmail
$ sudo pip install gicowa

Quick setup

Add the following line to your /etc/crontab:

0 * * * * root gicowa --persist --no-color --mailto [e-mail] lastwatchedcommits MyGitHubUsername sincelast > /tmp/gicowa 2>&1

That’s it. As long as your machine is running you’ll get e-mails when something gets pushed on a repo you’re watching.

NOTES:

• The e-mails are likely to be considered as spam until you mark one as non-spam in your e-mail client. Or use the --mailfrom option.

• If you’re watching 15 repos or more, you probably want to use the --credentials option to make sure you don’t hit the GitHub API rate limit.

Other/Advanced usage

gicowa is a generic command-line tool with which you can make much more that just implementing the use case depicted in the introduction. This section shows what it can.

List repos watched by a user

$ gicowa watchlist AurelienLourot
watchlist AurelienLourot
AurelienLourot/uncommitted
AurelienLourot/crouton-emacs-conf
brillout/FasterWeb
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher

List last commits on a repo

$ gicowa lastrepocommits AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher since 2015 07 05 09 12 00
lastrepocommits AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher since 2015-07-05 09:12:00
Last commit pushed on 2015-07-05 10:48:58
Committed on 2015-07-05 10:46:27 - Aurelien Lourot - Minor cleanup.
Committed on 2015-07-05 09:39:01 - Aurelien Lourot - watchlist command implemented.
Committed on 2015-07-05 09:12:00 - Aurelien Lourot - argparse added.

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NOTE: keep in mind that a commit’s committer timestamp isn’t the time at which it gets pushed.

List last commits on repos watched by a user

$ gicowa lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot since 2015 07 04 00 00 00
lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot since 2015-07-04 00:00:00
AurelienLourot/crouton-emacs-conf - Last commit pushed on 2015-07-04 17:10:18
AurelienLourot/crouton-emacs-conf - Committed on 2015-07-04 17:08:48 - Aurelien Lourot - Support for Del key.
brillout/FasterWeb - Last commit pushed on 2015-07-04 16:40:54
brillout/FasterWeb - Committed on 2015-07-04 16:38:55 - brillout - add README
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Last commit pushed on 2015-07-05 10:48:58
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 10:46:27 - Aurelien Lourot - Minor cleanup.
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 09:39:01 - Aurelien Lourot - watchlist command implemented.
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 09:12:00 - Aurelien Lourot - argparse added.
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 09:07:14 - AurelienLourot - Initial commit

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NOTE: if you’re watching 15 repos or more, you probably want to use the --credentials option to make sure you don’t hit the GitHub API rate limit.

List last commits since last run

Any listing command taking a since <timestamp> argument takes also a sincelast one. It will then use the time where that same command has been run for the last time on that machine with the option --persist. This option makes gicowa remember the last execution time of each command in ~/.gicowa.

$ gicowa --persist lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot sincelast
lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot since 2015-07-05 20:17:46
$ gicowa --persist lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot sincelast
lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot since 2015-07-05 20:25:33

Send output by e-mail

You can send the output of any command to yourself by e-mail:

$ gicowa --no-color --mailto [e-mail] lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot since 2015 07 04 00 00 00
lastwatchedcommits AurelienLourot since 2015-07-04 00:00:00
AurelienLourot/crouton-emacs-conf - Last commit pushed on 2015-07-04 17:10:18
AurelienLourot/crouton-emacs-conf - Committed on 2015-07-04 17:08:48 - Aurelien Lourot - Support for Del key.
brillout/FasterWeb - Last commit pushed on 2015-07-04 16:40:54
brillout/FasterWeb - Committed on 2015-07-04 16:38:55 - brillout - add README
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Last commit pushed on 2015-07-05 10:48:58
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 10:46:27 - Aurelien Lourot - Minor cleanup.
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 09:39:01 - Aurelien Lourot - watchlist command implemented.
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 09:12:00 - Aurelien Lourot - argparse added.
AurelienLourot/github-commit-watcher - Committed on 2015-07-05 09:07:14 - AurelienLourot - Initial commit
Sent by e-mail to [e-mail]

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NOTES:

• You probably want to use --no-color because your e-mail client is likely not to render the bash color escape sequences properly.

• The e-mails are likely to be considered as spam until you mark one as non-spam in your e-mail client. Or use the --mailfrom option.

Changelog

1.2.3 (2015-10-17) to 1.2.5 (2015-10-19):

• Exception on non-ASCII characters fixed.

1.2.2 (2015-10-12):

• Machine name appended to e-mail content.

1.2.1 (2015-08-20):

• Documentation improved.

1.2.0 (2015-08-20):

• --version option implemented.

1.1.0 (2015-08-20):

• --errorto option implemented.

1.0.1 (2015-08-18) to 1.0.9 (2015-08-19):

• Documentation improved.

Contributors

• Aurelien Lourot

• cassiodoroVicinetti