macOS
brew install gitwatchlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de gitwatch pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
brew install gitwatchlocal Homebrew formula metadata
nix profile install nixpkgs#gitwatchnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gi/gitwatch/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
aperçu
Watch a file or folder and automatically commit changes to a git repo easily
historique
gitwatch is a small shell-script utility that watches a file or directory and automatically commits changes to an existing Git repository. Its history is the history of a practical automation wrapper: file-system notifications, a short delay, git add, git commit, and optional push.
The gitwatch repository was created on GitHub in 2012 and kept the project's scope deliberately small. The official README describes it as a Bash script for watching a file or folder and committing changes to a Git repository.
Over time, the project added packaging and operating-system conveniences around that script. The README documents installation from source, bpkg, Arch AUR, NixOS, Docker, and user services for SysVInit and systemd, while keeping the central behavior as a long-running watch loop.
gitwatch attracted users who wanted automatic history for files that are not normally managed through explicit Git commits. The README names configuration files and document files as examples, especially when an application writes changes without a clear save or apply workflow.
Package metadata in this batch shows Homebrew and Nix packaging, and the README documents additional community distribution through AUR and Docker. That is modest but real adoption for a niche automation script.
Practitioners run gitwatch against a file or directory that already belongs to a Git repository. On Linux it uses inotifywait; on macOS the README points users to fswatch and coreutils through Homebrew.
A typical use is personal or small-team backup of frequently edited notes, dotfiles, or generated configuration. gitwatch waits briefly after a change to avoid racing partial writes, commits the changed file or directory contents, and can push to a remote when configured.
gitwatch is package-nerd interesting because it is tiny Unix automation rather than a platform. It exposes Git as a low-friction append-only history mechanism for arbitrary local state.
The tool also illustrates the tradeoff that packagers like: one shell script plus standard utilities can cover a workflow that would otherwise invite a daemon, database, or bespoke sync service.
posture de sécurité
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
gitwatch | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch
métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:gitwatch |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.6 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gitwatch |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch |
| Docs amont | https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch#readme |
| Licence | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-06-18T09:25:51+09:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances | coreutils, fswatch |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur all) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | gitwatch |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
gitwatch
nix profile install nixpkgs#gitwatchpiste source
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
View the package source record on GitHub.