swot VS gitwatch

I have mentioned this in other reddit posts, we use SWOT by JetBrains to make sure the .edu email being used is valid. We also do not accept applications from domains that have been blacklisted by them for fraud. You can find this list here.

No problem, just apply with an official document here. Also, doesn't need to be a US high school. I can tons of accepted high school domains from other countries in their GitHub repo, for example this random middle/high school from Germany.

JetBrains, as far as I'm aware, just checks the domain of your email against this repository, sends you a verification email to make sure the address is actually real and belongs to you, and doesn't ask any questions behind that. You can do this over and over in perpetuity, even if you're a staff or faculty member rather than a student.

Or some text files on github

https://github.com/JetBrains/swot/tree/master/lib/domains check if your email domain is listed here. Then it also works. (Or just register as Student License and wait if it works)

Actually I found a archive in here that list all the academic domains https://github.com/JetBrains/swot/tree/master/lib/domains

JetBrains uses this open library to verify email addresses for its own student licenses. I guess that means it's free and somewhat battle-tested.

OP if you’re still reading this thread, here’s what I would do for now. Use something like Gitwatch and generate commits whenever changes are detected on the master folder.

For the user-space part of the config, we would have users either 1) check-in new content into their own git repo with agreed-on namespacing, or 2) drop their files into a share that we would watch with Gitwatch (to auto-commit them to a repository).

This is what I did. I was already running the node.js version of TiddlyWiki in Docker. I added a Gitwatch container to my docker-compose file, and now it is running along happily. I get an automatic commit and push to my repo every time I change a file in TiddlyWiki. I'd think this would be easy enough to do just using the Gitwatch script if you don't want to mess with Docker.

It might be easier to set up commit-and-push through gitwatch.

this is what I had set up, it actually is a bit more generalized than I remember, it will run a script called .gitautorun in your repository every time you open a file, then I just used giftwatch to commit every time you save.