So not only is git useful for the small projects it’s also good for keeping track of todos and issues. Ticgit is a distributed ticketing systems based on git. It provides a command line interface as well as a web interface via sinatra and stores all of the ticket info in a separate branch, called ticgit. Rather clever I think.
Ticgit takes a simplistic approach to issue tracking as Lighthouse has done. You can comment, add tags, manage the state of an issue, save views, and change to whom an issue is assigned. There is still more planned, like keeping track of milestones and syncing the tickets to Lighthouse.
As mentioned, there is a web interface to ticgit; however, it wasn’t my cup of tea. So I have started my own web interface, tiwatchtower. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but I would love to hear any thoughts.
Conclusion
So far, I like it and it’s exciting to see how git can be pushed. It’s great for keeping track of things that are on my mind without worrying about having to setup trac or having to use up a Lighthouse project. It’s simple, effective, and worth a look at.
Would be nice to see a screenshot of this or a live demo. Sounds like a good idea though, and I’m still not really satisfied with any open source bug trackers.
Hey.
I have assumed responsibility for maintaining ticgit, as the original author Scott Chacon, is busy spending his time on other things.
I’m curious, where did you see that ticgit was planning on syncing with Lighthouse?
I’ve become rather familiar with all of the documentation that I can find on ticgit, but I’ve never come across that. Nevertheless, that sounds like a spectacular idea!! I’m adding it to my TODO file right now.
Ticgit’s web interface, ticgitweb, looks like it hasn’t been maintained in a rather long time now, and to be honest I’ve never used it myself. I’m considering segregating it into it’s own project.
It would be cool if you had some screenshots, or a demo, or even a video. I’d like to see it in action.
If I do segregate ticgitweb into its own seperate project, I will be creating a list of available ticgit web interfaces, would you mind if I link here to yours?
For recent action on ticgit,
http://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit/network
And the up to date Readme at
http://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit
I’m glad you’ve taken up the torch of ticgit.
I don’t remember where I saw the ticgit integration with Lighthouse. It might have just been IRC discussions or something with Scott.
I personally think you should separate out the web interface from the project. ticgit-watchtower was intended to be my stab at a custom UI, but I haven’t had time to maintain it.
Also, sorry about the late reply, it seems my server had a bug in email sending so I didn’t get half the notifications
Is tiwatchtower even available anymore? Clicking on the link to your tiwatchtower github page is broken, but looking at github.com/pope shows the correct one is https://github.com/pope/ticgit-watchtower
Are you still actively maintaining it?
tiwatchtower link (“http://github.com/pope/ticgit-watchtower.”) has an extra trailing dot.