Hi, Tim Hutt wrote: > 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). On the polling side, it is possible to improve things a little: https://www.kernel.org/mirroring-kernelorg-repositories.html https://github.com/mricon/grokmirror A hanging GET or websocket is more client-friendly but more expensive server-side. That doesn't rule out making it happen on some servers if someone does the work. If I understand correctly then this architecture tends to lead to centralization --- a small number of services providing notifications pushed from multiple sources, as with https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/engage-and-retain/push-notifications/how-push-works If someone wants to try adding something like grokmirror (which describes the state of multiple repositories, amortizing the per-request costs) to git, especially if it supports something etag-like as Jeff King suggested, then I would be interested. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan
