It’s to drum up ‘Antifa is a terrorist organization , and anyone we don’t like is a member’ support. And it’s working.

Like every thing else they do, the truth doesn’t matter.

Can continuously loop over the file, examine the md5 hash for changes.

Run the script if it has changed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6475252/bash-script-watch-folder-execute-command

daemon() {
chsum1=""

while [[ true ]]
do
    chsum2=`find src/ -type f -exec md5 {} \;`
    if [[ $chsum1 != $chsum2 ]] ; then           
        if [ -n "$chsum1" ]; then
            compile
        fi
        chsum1=$chsum2
    fi
    sleep 2
done
}

It’s relatively easy to self host your own git repositories.

It’s just that Github adds a lot of extra value added features that help streamline things for larger projects, and this is why many people use it. For most people, the value they get far outweighs the inconvenience when it goes down for 10 minutes here or there.

Using git (or equivalent) is pretty important. Using github is pretty optional.