A small add-on for Guard that prevents it triggering plugins when the file changes that otherwise would have triggered plugins were caused by git.

I use guard to run rspec and rubocop in a lot of my side projects and at work. I typically only want them to fire when I make a change to a file, not when I change git branches.

Highlights

• My first published ruby gem

• It was a chance to give back to the community of some open source software that I’ve heavily benefited from

• It’s been downloaded over 1,000 times

Downsides

• I haven’t used this much because at work I run guard inside a Docker container which does not have access to git