A program that uses inotify and libgit2 in order to continuously execute something whenever a significant file changes.
This is a feature several modern tools already provide (e.g. Haskell's stack). However I frequently jump between (esoteric) programming languages, tools, tasks and trains of thought, and... "uhm, how does one run the tests in this project again?"
But! for me tasks, tools and languages rarely change between (git) working directories:
so continuing the make tradition
(or is it too old-school to try ./configure && make install whenever one obtains a new piece of software?)
I keep a .k file in each such directory with relevant
operations that I (frequently forget how to) execute.
(I'm quite certain that this workflow emerged when having to remember relevant kubectl commands, if you know what I mean when managing several clusters etc.)
Therefore I keep my nvim open
in one tmux pane and
in the other a c k go (or c make sic!), where
alias c='~/.local/bin/continuously --'
and maybe .k:
go() {
make build # or whatever's relevant right now
}Thus whenever I save a file something relevant gets built.
usage: continuously [OPTION] [--] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
Run command when files change
options:
-h show this text
-q keep quiet about event and state transitions
-- stop processing arguments