I’m the old-fashioned type who still likes getting email: I can process it at my leisure while still handling high volume. Unfortunately github itself can’t email you when commits are made to a particular repo (unless you own it and can configure hooks). So I need to resort to the atom feeds, and rss2email:
$ r2e new [email protected]
$ vi .rss2email/config.py
# set local (sendmail) delivery, disable HTML mail, etc.
$ r2e opmlimport subscriptions.xml
$ declare -f github-commits
github-commits ()
{
r2e add $(basename $1) "https://github.com/$1/commits/master.atom"
}
$ crontab -l | grep r2e
*/10 * * * * r2e run
$ tail -3 .procmailrc
:0
* User-Agent: rss2email
commits/
So every 10 minutes, we’ll get new commits from all the watched repos,
and procmail them into a commits folder.
With the number of repos I’m watching, I have to set:
same-server-fetch-interval = 0.5
in the configuration to stop github throwing back 429 Too Many Requests at me.
Private repositories
It’s pretty ghetto, but if you look at the source for
https://github.com/me/privaterepo/commits/master, you’ll find an Atom
link including a token that you can use for getting notifications from
private repos. At least you’re not handing it off to a third-party like
IFTT with the above approach…