How to 'Watch' only a directory in a GitHub repository?

Question

For example, https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden is the GitHub repository. But I only want to 'watch' this directory https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/tree/master/plugins in the repository.

How do I do that? There doesn't seem to be a way.

Answer 1

GitHub provides feeds that can do this for both directories and files. Using that syndication, a service like Blog Trottr can send you an email whenever the feed is updated.

Some samples, taken from the Linux source code on master:

• A directory: source on GitHub, history on GitHub, Atom feed.

• A file: source on GitHub, history on GitHub, Atom feed.

Answer 2

I can't think of anything if you really need to watch a directory. But if you can get away with a single file, you can use a change tracker like VisualPing¹ on the raw view of the file in question. The directory view would probably change every time someone starred or watched the project, but a single file should be sufficient for a lot of people (especially with Makefile.am / CMakeLists.txt / etc. which list all subdirectories).

_{¹ No particular endorsement. They bought the service I was using before.}