git - How to 'Watch' only a directory in a GitHub repository?

Question

For example, https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden is the GitHub repository. But I only want to 'watch' this directory https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/tree/master/plugins in the repository.

How do I do that? There doesn't seem to be a way.

Answer 1

GitHub provides RSS feeds for both directories and files that can do this. See Setting up an Github Commit RSS feed

Using that you can set up an email alert using a service like https://blogtrottr.com/ to send you an email whenever the feed is updated.

Example: To watch this directory: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/Documentation use this atom feed https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/Documentation.atom

Example: To watch a file: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/Documentation/Makefile https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/Documentation/Makefile.atom