Repo Heartbeat is a set of python scripts that send digest information of changes to contributors in each of the repository or repository group. In some cases it is better than the usual RSS support that is provided by most of the repositories.

It is highly configurable and can produce separate email for different groups of repositories. Currently SVN, Mercurial and Git repositories are supported but it is very easy to add other repositories. You are welcome to add them if you need.

The repos hav possibility of adding many repositories with single configuration entry (scanning for subdirectories).

"Repo Heartbeat" has some basic "intelligence :) ": mails are only sent when there are some changes and they are sent only to those who contributed to given repository (or group of repositories). User names can be matched easily to user emails via external mapping.

The emails sent are in HTML form and if the repositories are accessible through web, the mails contain direct links to projects and to changes.

It is ideal tool to track repository changes in a small to medium company.