Automating github

I got tired of downloading my own scripts from Github when working among multiple projects. So I automated it, of course. The bitsh project reuses a test script from the shell project, and now the Makefile for bitsh is simply:

SHELL=/bin/bash

test:
	@[ -t 1 ] && flags=-c ; \
	./test-bitsh.sh -i -- $$flags t

When run-tests is updated in Github, bitsh automatically picks up the changes. And I learned the value of ETag.

By the way, why "bitsh"? I hunted around for project names combining "git" and "bash" and found most of them already taken. Beggars can't be choosers.

UPDATE: I found the <TAB> character got munged by Blogger to a single space. This is unfortunate as you cannot copy out a valid Makefile. One solution is to put in an HTML tab entity.