Doesn't Work by instruction

[DonRichards]

What I got from the instructions is as follows with results

$ git clone https://github.com/jakeonrails/git-notify
Cloning into 'git-notify'...
remote: Counting objects: 48, done.
remote: Total 48 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 48
Unpacking objects: 100% (48/48), done.

$ cd git-notify/
$ ls
git-notify readme.md

$ ~/code/some-git-repository $ git-notify
bash: /Users/don/Desktop/github/TRACE: is a directory

Running: OSX

[jakeonrails]

@DonRichards I'm very sorry but I no longer use this utility myself.

You might try ensuring that the git-notify file is executable: chmod +x git-notify.

Also, are you using bash or another shell? I just tried running it locally on a ZSH installation and it does not work for me, either, but I get a different error message

[jakeonrails]

Um, also, are you literally typing $ git-notify after your prompt? The $ is only mean to represent your prompt. You don't need to type a $.

Let's say your git repo is in ~/code/my-project, and git-notify is installed in ~/code/git-notify. Then you would literally do something like:

$ cd code/my-project
~/code/my-project $ ~/git-notify/git-notify

OR, you need to install git-notify somewhere on your PATH, so that it can be found globally, in which case you would not need to add the directory when you run it.

[DonRichards]

Nice. Thought this was the weird instruction. 2 points that could be useful in the README. I'll give it a go.