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Cool. I've wanted to try GitCop (which seems to do something similar) for a while, but didn't get around to it yet.

> Magically enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines.

Looks pretty non-magical and quite straightforward to me. I even get to set explicit rules. Why the 'magic' branding?

I'm glad to hear that you get our message! The 'magic' branding is there because everything is done automatically (i.e. it's a cloud service) without the need to install anything on the client side.

And we love magic ;)

It's a cloud service? I'm probably missing something, but it looks like a smallish git linter script? I guess I'm not seeing where all the work went to make this something more than an OSS script one could write in two hours.

Yes, I will look into how to make that a bit more clear :) This is integrating with GitHubs build checks and web hooks and we want it to be very easy to get started. A script could do local validation but that would require the contributor to actually run the script :P

There is a very well known Git guide named "Git Magic" So you might be losing a bit of googlability wth that name.

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