SYNOPSIS

github-notifier [options]

DESCRIPTION

github-notifier is a companion script for git-notifier, that watches GitHub repositories for changes. The script maintains a local mirror of repositories you want to watch and runs git-notifier locally on those to generate the notification mails.

To setup github-notifier you create a configuration file github-notifier.cfg in the directory where you want to keep the clones. github-notifier.cfg is an "ini-style" file consisting of one or more sections, each of which defines a set of repositories to monitor, see below its description.

For full documentation, see the homepage at: http://www.icir.org/robin/git-notifier/.

OPTIONS

--allchanges <branches>

--config=PATH PATH to alternative configuration file.

--debug

Run the script in debug mode, which means that it will (1) log more verbosely and to stderr, and (2) run git-notifier with the --debug and --noupdate options.

FILES

github-notifier.cfg

The file should be placed in the directory where you want to keep the clones

Specifying Repositories

The repositories entry takes a list of command-separated repositories to monitor. Each repository has the form <user>/<repo>, where <user> is a GitHub user (or organization) and <repo> is a repository that the user (or organization) maintains. <repo> can be the wildcard * to monitor all of a user's repositories (e.g., repositories=bro/*). One can exclude individual repositories by prefixing them with a dash (e.g., repositories=bro/*,-bro/time-machine).

Authentication

By default, github-notifier only monitors public repositories. You can however also watch private ones if you provide it with suitable credentials using the user and token options:

user=foo

token=3238753465abc7634657zefg

The token shouldn't be the user's password but a "personal access token" as you can generate it in the user's account settings.

Setting Notifier Options

Within a set one can specify any of the standard git-notifier options by prefixing them with notifier-. The notifier-mailinglist options above is an example. To, e.g., set a Reply-To header, you would use [email protected].

EXAMPLES

Here's an example set that watches just a single repository at github.com/bro/time-machine:

[TimeMachine]

repositories=bro/time-machine

[email protected]

This defines a set called TimeMachine consisting of just the one GitHub repository, sending notifications to the given email address. With this saved in the current directory as github-notifier.cfg, you can then run github-notifier and it will create a complete clone of the remote on its first run (and not send any mails yet). On subsequent executions, the script will update the clone and spawn git-notifier to email out notifications. For now, the best way to automate this is to run github-notifier from cron.

LICENSE

git-notifier comes with a BSD-style license.

AUTHOR

Robin Sommer <[email protected]>. This manpage is written by Lev Lamberov <[email protected]>.