git-informed

Get notifications of new commits on a remote branch

About

• Tells you how many commits behind a remote branch your local version is
• Notification comes through macOS or Ubuntu within 10 seconds of a new commit on the remote branch
• Shows a shortened version of the commit logs for the new commits
• Runs in an infinite sleepy loop

Usage

Install as git command

Put on your $PATH, e.g.

cp git-informed.sh /usr/local/bin/git-informed

Use in any repo as normal git command

git informed

# or in the background
git informed &

# with specific branch
git informed development &

Symlink in repo

ln -s git-informed.sh ~/repo/of/choice/git-informed.sh
cd ~/repo/of/choice
./git-informed.sh

Arguments

position	name	description
1	branch	specify the branch to compare remote and local versions (defaults to HEAD)

Options

short	long	description
-v	--verbose	print the result of each remote check
-a	--alert	(macOS only) show modal alerts in addition to system notifications
-N	--no-notification	don't show system notifications (useful when -v or -a is specified)

Platforms

Works on

• macOS (with the osascript dependency)
• Ubuntu (with notify-send dependency)