Randall remind me that I haven't implemented IRC notifications for commits yet so I started looking at CIA.vc's GIT support. The more I look the less I think its a good fit for Git. This is mostly tied to the fact that lots of old VCS hooks are written with an assumption of "one push is one commit."
So with CIA.vc (unless I'm missing the docs, which includes reading the source to the recommended git hook) we have to think about things like, one IRC notification per commit, per branch, or per push. IOW, I don't see a good way for messages like "davisp updated refname [hash1 ... hash2] <link> <summary>" type notifications. Alternatively, I can write a short script that just does the IRC notifications which isn't too hard. Its a bit hackish, but we use similar things at work and it seems to be more robust than even GitHub's IRC bot. Anyway, input is requested so I know what I should be looking at.