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		dv_dt on Jan 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dura is a background process that watches your Git... I always wanted a utility to run in the background, look for changes, run unit tests, and if they pass automatically do a side commit noting it. This looks close.

maleldil on Jan 4, 2022 [–]

I think you can do something like that with `watchexec` (or `entr`, if you prefer that):

watchexec -c -e go 'go test ./... && git commit -am "Tests pass"'

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