# jevakallio/git-notify

🙉 📣 Communicate important updates to your team via git commit messages

Repository: https://github.com/jevakallio/git-notify
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/git-notify
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: git, githooks, husky, developer-tools, typescript
Last push: 2022-06-02T18:45:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2012, "days_push": 1553, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1348, forks 23 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:27.709438+00:00)

## What it is
git-notify is an npm CLI tool that lets developers embed announcements in git commit messages using a 'git-notify:' prefix. It displays those messages to teammates via git hooks (post-merge, post-rewrite, post-checkout) when they pull or check out the relevant commits.

## Use cases
- notify teammates about new dev environment setup via commit messages
- announce breaking changes when developers pull commits
- show team announcements on branch checkout
- integrate announcements into GitHub PR merge commits
- configure git hooks with husky to display messages automatically

## When to choose
- your team communicates project updates through git history
- you use husky or git hooks in an npm/yarn project
- you need announcements visible to distributed or open-source contributors

## When to avoid
- your team relies on Slack or other chat tools for announcements
- you don't use git hooks or can't install devDependencies
- you need notifications for non-git workflows

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, cli, plugin-system
- domain: developer-tools, version-control
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: git-hooks, husky, team-communication, commit-messages, notifications, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- jevakallio/git-notify (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:27.709438+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:42:25.616158+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jevakallio/git-notify (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:27.709438+00:00, sha 3d907954e671)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/git-notify (fetched 2026-08-29T12:01:44.045802+00:00, sha 316c0c226f34)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.