git-monitor: Passively snapshots working tree changes efficiently.

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A utility that passively monitors your Git working tree and periodically creates snapshot commits of any changes. This is useful for creating a detailed history of your work during development sessions, allowing you to recover any intermediate state. Run git monitor in your project directory before starting work, and snapshots will be saved to refs/snapshots/refs/heads/$BRANCH. Supports both regular Git repositories and Git worktrees.

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Versions	1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4.0, 2.0.0.0, 2.0.1.0, 2.0.1.1, 2.0.2.0, 2.1.0.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.1.1, 3.1.1.2, 3.1.1.3, 3.1.1.4, 3.1.1.5, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.2
Change log	None available
Dependencies	base (>=4 && <5), bytestring (>=0.9.2.1 && <0.13), containers (>=0.4.2.1 && <0.8), directory (>=1.1.0.2 && <1.4), filepath (>=1.3.0.0 && <1.6), gitlib (>=3.3.0 && <4), gitlib-libgit2 (>=3.3.0 && <4), logging (>=1.3.0 && <4), old-locale (>=1.0.0.4 && <1.1), optparse-applicative (>=0.10 && <0.19), shelly (>=0.14 && <1.13), tagged (>=0.4.5 && <0.9), template-haskell (>=2.7 && <2.23), text (>=0.11.2 && <2.2), time (>=1.4 && <1.15), transformers (>=0.3.0.0 && <0.7), unix (>=2.5 && <2.9), unordered-containers (>=0.2.3.0 && <0.3) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	John Wiegley
Maintainer	John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Category	Development
Home page	http://github.com/jwiegley/gitlib
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/jwiegley/gitlib
Uploaded	by JohnWiegley at 2025-12-12T23:32:39Z

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git-monitor

Passively snapshots working tree changes efficiently.

Building

This package is part of the gitlib multi-package repository. Build from the repository root:

# From the gitlib repository root
nix build    # Builds git-monitor (default package)

Or from this directory:

# From git-monitor directory
nix build ../#default

Development

For development with direnv:

# From git-monitor directory
direnv allow  # The .envrc file loads the parent flake

Or manually enter the development shell:

nix develop ../#default

Dependencies

gitlib >= 3.3.0
gitlib-libgit2 >= 3.3.0
Other dependencies listed in git-monitor.cabal

All dependencies are managed at the repository root level via the main flake.nix and cabal.project files.