Hi, Currently if you want to monitor a repository for changes there are three options: * Polling - run a script to check for updates every 60 seconds. * Server side hooks * Web hooks (on Github, Bitbucket etc.) Unfortunately for many (most?) cases server-side hooks and web hooks are not suitable. They require you to both have admin access to the repo and have a public server available to push updates to. That is a huge faff when all I want to do is run some local code when a repo is updated (e.g. play a sound). Currently people resort to polling (https://stackoverflow.com/a/5199111/265521) which is just ugly. I would like to propose that there should be a forth option that uses a persistent connection to monitor the repo. It would be used something like this: git watch https://github.com/git/git.git or git watch git@xxxxxxxxxx:git/git.git It would then print simple messages to stdout. The complexity of what it prints is up for debate, - it could be something as simple as "PUSH\n", or it could include more information, e.g. JSON-encoded information about the commits. I'd be happy with just "PUSH\n" though. In terms of implementation, the HTTP transport could use Server-Sent Events, and the SSH transport can pretty much do whatever so that should be easy. Thoughts? Tim
