of those cool applications that I’ve found on the internet is a product call Commit Monitor.  It’s a great little tool that runs inside your task tray for Windows.  When ever a commit has happened you’ll be notified (based on the time you set to check the Repository)

This is very helpful for me as the CTO to know that the teams are actually committing their work and I can review each project without having to get a local copy on my machine.  This is also VERY helpful when your on a time and need to know if others on the team have committed any new changes that you may need to get to keep current.

Here is a screen shot of what it looks like. This is snapshot of one of our Servers that contains the current active projects we have going on at the time.  I have blacked out the names of the projects to protect the innocent.

This is the main screen for the application. On the left you can see all the repositories from a specific server. If you had other projects your working on from different servers, you could also add them there too. I have not seen a limation.  On the right pane, you have all the revisions, the date and the author of who checked in.

If you needed to get a diff on a what has changed, its just as easy as selecting the two revisions in the repository and clicking the show Diff.  If you have a specific Diff Program you like to use, simply select it in the options area of the application and it will use that tool.

When the application goes and checks to see if a anything is commited, you will see that that the icon on the tray is animating. (if you don’t like the animation you can also turn this off too.)

If you happen to be at the computer when the commit has changed, you’ll also hear a sound (same one as exchange so I had to change it because I thought I was getting email) and a message alert telling you the project, how many commits since you last checked the main screen for that repository, and the author who made the change.

To view the changes double click on the icon in the tray.  It will bring up the window that shows you all the projects your monitoring and any new updates since you last checked will be in bold with a number in parentheses telling you how many commits.

So that’s Commit Monitor in a nut shell. If think this tool would be as valuable as I have, download it and donate some money to the developer. I gave some money so if everyone did, we can support him to continue to make great tools like this one!