On Monday, October 3, 2011, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > 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.
it's possible for sure. the github cia.vc service works like you described. > > 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. > >
