hussaintamboli / informant

An Informant for keeping tabs on repositories that use version control systems like svn and git

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

informant's Issues

Implement a feature where the informant notifies you about the changes in svn project by collaborators

TBD

git informant only works for master

I already have informant in place using cronjob to monitor one of my git project. I just noticed that it was working fine as long as I was working on the master. I was getting notifications saying

• I just added some files
• some files are unversioned, etc

But after switching to a branch called dev,

$ git checkout dev

I have stopped getting the notifications

Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed error occurs when run as a cronjob

Cron:
0 * * * * svn.py 2> /home/hussain/tmp/svn.log

I found below error in svn.log

$ cat svn.log

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
** (svn.py:30689): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch --    autolaunch=b569e3e515ab65bef50c2d3000000008 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero     exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.\n
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/hussain/Documents/MyRepos/informant/svn.py", line 98, in <module>
 hist.list_status_working_copy()
 File "/home/hussain/Documents/MyRepos/informant/svn.py", line 87, in list_status_working_copy
 raise errors.SvnError(e)
 errors.SvnError: Error in showing notification. Command line `dbus-launch -- autolaunch=b569e3e515ab65bef50c2d3000000008 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero   exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.\n

Implement a feature where the informant notifies you about the changes in git project by collaborators

TBD

Remove svn support

Too much unnecessary hassle. I am not even using SVN any more.

Try pygit2 cuz pygit is not enough

https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2

Use jelmer/dulwich Instead of GitPython

https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich