gic.sh

Relay Chat over Git

Tutorial

1. Fork this repo to your own account or group
2. Add your friends as collaborators
3. Have them set up their chat like so:

export CHAT_GROUP="<your github account or group>"
git clone git@github.com:$CHAT_GROUP/GIC.git

Once chat is set up, you can launch a chat session like so:

cd GIC
./gic.sh

Chat commands

• /join joins an existing room
• /create creates a new room
• /help shows the above two commands

How it works

• Chat logs are git commit messages
• Typing in chat creates and pushes and empty commit with your message
• Tmux splits into chat log and prompt screens
• GNU Watch pulls and updates the chat log every 2 seconds

Acknowledgements

• @ephigabay for the original GIC
• @motemen for git-log-relay-chat
• Andy Balaam's blog post on associative arrays in bash
• This StackOverflow Answer by Harshit and Kevin Bowen