I'd have a chat with the CIA.vc guys, to see what they say. We're obviously not the first people wanting notifications for a Git repository. I would avoid writing our own IRC bot at almost any cost.
On 3 Oct 2011, at 08:31, Paul Davis wrote: > 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.
