gulp-repository-watch

Gulp plugin for watching the commit changes in the repository defined as a dependency in bower.json

var gulp = require('gulp');
var repoWatch = require('gulp-repository-watch');

gulp.task('repo-watch', function() {
	repoWatch({
	        repository: '[email protected]:acierto/gulp-repository-watch.git'
	    })
		.on('check', function() {
			console.log('ping');
		})
		.on('change', function(newHash, oldHash) {
			console.log('Changed from ', oldHash, ' to ', newHash);
		});
});

You can also point to the branch of the repository by specifying it like that:

repoWatch({
    repository: '[email protected]:acierto/gulp-repository-watch.git#experimental'
    ...

Options

| Option | Default | Description | |---------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | poll | 1000 (1s) | How often gulp-repository-watch polls the repository for changes | | initialPoll | 1000 (1s) | Wrap up time for gulp-repository-watch | | head | null | The initial Git HEAD commit revision value | | gitHead | git ls-remote $REPO HEAD -n 1 | The command to use to retrieve the current Git HEAD | | gitPull | git pull | The command to use to instruct Git to pull in changes |

Events

Events for subscription:

| Event | Description | |--------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------| | check() | Triggered when gulp-repository-watch polls Git for changes | | change(newHash, oldHash) | Triggered when Git has updated from the old hash to a new hash | | nochange(hash) | Triggered when no Git changes were found |

Events for emitting:

| Event | Description | |--------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------| | stop | Will stop polling Git repository |