informant

Informant keeps you in the loop while colaborating using svn and git

• Keep tabs on svn changes being done on the repo. It evidently lets you know if your working copy is not upto date (TBD)
• It reminds you that your working copy has staged / uncommited / untracked changes (done)
• Notifications are sent on the desktop using notify

Cron Setting

PATH=:/home/hussain/Documents/MyRepos/informant PYTHONPATH=:/home/hussain/Documents/MyRepos/informant

0 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 svn.py <working_copy_path> <remote_url_of_repo> <icon_path> 2> /home/hussain/tmp/svn.log

0 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 gitt.py 2> /home/hussain/tmp/git.log

Tools used

• pynotify
• pysvn
• arrow
• GitPython

Challenges

• pysvn and GitPython don't have good documentation. I am exploring it manually.
• pynotify doesn't work properly. e.g. timeout and urgency don't work

TODO

• Check Issues
• informant for remote changes in both svn and git
• I am thinking of using dulwich instead of GitPython

Contributing