How do I get notifications for commits to a repository?

Question

I\'d like to know what kind of commits are being made to the Lithium framework so I can update (or rollback) when there is something major.

I\'m already watching the re

Answer 1

You go into Settings > Integrations & services for the GitHub repository and add an Email service. See Choosing the types of notifications you receive.

Answer 2

I just found out by accident that you can easily manage to achieve this:

• fork the project (if you haven't done it yet)
• create a pull request for yourself from the selected branch, e.g. from master of head project to master of your fork:
  • base repository: your/project ; base: master <-- head repository: original/project ; compare: master
• do NOT merge this pull request
• under the Email section of your Notifications settings enable:
  • Comments on Issues and Pull Requests
  • Pull Request reviews
  • Pull Request pushes

That's it. You will receive email notifications about every commit on master branch.

Answer 3

You can use GitHub webhooks and set it up with a push notification API. This is free and easy to do.

Spontit is an example of a free API that enables you to do this.

For a tutorial, see this video.

Written instructions are available in the README here.

Answer 4

Disclaimer: I'm the original author.

This project allows you to get an e-mail when a commit gets pushed on a repository you are watching (on any branch).

Explaination: gicowa is a command-line tool written in python that lists all last commits on all GitHub repos you are watching. This tool can send its output via e-mail and can be called from your crontab. Doing that makes you receive an e-mail notification each time a commit gets pushed on a GitHub repo you are watching.

Answer 5

Subscribe to Github's RSS feed!
Choose your news feed (all watched repos), or only Lithium's commit history.

RSS are made for that ;-)

PS: I don't see how can you find that useful since there is a couple of commits made each day on various branches, some small typo fixes, others fix bugs, and others introduce new things...

Answer 6

You can leverage the GitHub Events API to perform such task and retrieve a JSON formatted response.

• syntax: GET /repos/:user/:repo/events
• example: https://api.github.com/repos/UnionOfRAD/lithium/events

Note: In order to retrieve the commits, you'll have to filter out the events of type PushEvents.

Below a quick sample

$(function() {
    $.getJSON('https://api.github.com/repos/UnionOfRAD/lithium/events?callback=?', function(data) {
        var list = $('#push-events');

        $.each(data.data, function(key, val) {
            if (val.type == "PushEvent") {
                $.each(val.payload.commits, function(key2, val2) {
                    list.append('<li id="' + val2.sha + '"><a href="https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/commit/' + val2.sha + '">'
                                + val2.message + '</a> [' + val.actor.login + ' @ ' + val.created_at + ']</li>');
                });
            }
        });
        
        if (list.children().size() == 0) {
            list.append('<li>No pushes in last ' + data.data.length + ' events.</li>');
        }
    });
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="push-events"></ul>