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Watches for changes in a directory tree and reruns a command in an acme win or just on the terminal.

Is eaburns/Watch beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to eaburns/Watch to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
201
Forks
49
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
8
Dominant language
Go
License
No license data
Last GitHub push
Mar 18, 2023
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to eaburns/Watch

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Lizensing Issue even in opensource as long no dedicated license file is added
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    eaburns/Watch#34 ·

  • Doesn't built on Windows
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    eaburns/Watch#30 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Add a free license
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    eaburns/Watch#29 · 1 reaction ·

  • Restart running command
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    eaburns/Watch#28 · 2 comments ·

  • -p should allow a comma-separated list of paths.
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    eaburns/Watch#27 ·

  • Allow to choose which events to watch
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    eaburns/Watch#23 ·

  • No synchronization between writing stdout and writing "exit status" and end time message
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    eaburns/Watch#19 ·

  • Err if the value of -p doesn't exist
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    eaburns/Watch#16 · 3 comments ·

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