Watch file for changes/email notification on file change

Implement a watch file feature that will send the user an email when the file changes. Imagine you keep important documentation in a repository and you want to know when a specific file changes.

Originally at http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-deprecated-feedback-forum/suggestions/6584124-watch-file-for-changes-email-notification-on-file & https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/2536

mentioned in issue #13328 (moved)

Love it!

Should also do directories.

Another problem can be with developers editing highly sensitive files, where seniors should be notified about such changes to provide extra review process.

@vsizov Could you give us a weight estimate here?

This would help solve https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13328

If it can cover the use case where somebody like a principal engineer, who is in charge of the initiative in question, is able to keep track of who is doing what by way of notifications via email of changes to files and directories, and in general, anything about the repositories and/or groups that he/she wants to keep a pulse on, that would be great!

I created such issue a month ago https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12945 So it's a duplicate.

Status changed to closed

mentioned in issue #12945 (closed)

This would be amazing

Would love this feature. Would be nice to define some wildcard to watch to allow whole folders to be in the notification scope.

This uses a webhook to send the user a notification (slack, email, etc), when a file or a set of files change in a repo on git. The example uses github repos. If interested can build one for gitlab as well. Most important with a little bit of node.js scripting the developer is in complete control of what the feature does.

https://youtu.be/6HgxIkT8EQ4

https://github.com/DevScoreInc/samples/tree/master/github-file-monitor

marked this issue as related to gitlab#1817