Dart command line tool that checks GitHub repos for new releases. Can also check all the Starred repos of a github user for new releases.

Requirements:

To install:

> pub global activate -sgit https://github.com/holyspidoo/GitRel

To update, run activate again:

> pub global activate -sgit https://github.com/holyspidoo/GitRel

To run GitRel, you either specify a github username as argument, or you create a repos.txt file and run GitRel in the same directory as repos.txt

GitRel [-d] [username]

If the github username has starred repos, everyone will be checked for new releases. Every repo URL in repos.txt will also be checked for new releases. The format of repos.txt is one URL per line.

Example of repos.txt:

https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen
https://github.com/acidanthera/Lilu

Running GitRel in the same directory as that repos.txt file will result in:

Processing Repos from file repos.txt
-------------------------------------------------------
WhateverGreen, 1.2.3
Last update: 	about a month ago
-------------------------------------------------------
Lilu, 1.2.7
Last update: 	about a month ago

The -d flag creates a file called updateDates.json where it stores the release dates. Next time you run the tool with -d again, it will be able to tell you if new releases appeared since the last time you checked. Yeah, this is a pretty niche edge case 🙂. Just be careful since the dates file is created in the directory where you run GitRel -d.

Please file reports on the GitHub Issue Tracker.