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Great idea! I've wanted something like this for a while, but never quite realised it.

What languages does it support? From the look of the front pages, C-based languages (C/C++/Obj-C) are ok.

Have you thought about offering this as a service? You could probably hook into Github and sync issues on commit using the same API that Jenkins uses.

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As mentioned below, it currently has support for parsing C / C++, Java, C#, Bash, Ruby, Perl, and Python files

It is pretty trivial to add support for any other language or comment type however, take a look at #get_comment_type in lib/watson/parser.rb

Never, thought about offering this as a service, having this as a commit hook is a very interesting idea though, thanks!

What about encouraging use/automated installation of local git hooks, ie. run watson locally after a successful push. I've just begun looking at git hooks but this seems like exactly the sort of thing they were intended for

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