gowatch

A basic command line utility that compares the active commit hash of a local git repository with its remote counterpart on GitHub, and issues a pull command if the remote counterpart reports a differing commit hash at its HEAD.

Setup

1. create a directory to house configuration mkdir $HOME/.gowatch
2. generate a GitHub application OAuth token
3. place the token in .gowatch/github_creds
4. place the GitHub repository details in .gowatch/repo_map.json

repo_map.json { "repo_owner_username": { "repo_name": "/local/repo/copy/path" } }