What Is a GitHub Digest for Your Team

Sign in with GitHub and choose the repositories that belong in the digest. Only those repos are included. A daily digest covers the previous 24 hours. A weekly digest covers the past week and is prepared on Mondays.

Email goes to workspace members who have the email digest turned on, at the email hour you set. Slack goes to the channel stored when you connect Slack, at the Slack hour you set. Digests are prepared for workspaces with an active subscription. The homepage Unlimited plan is $29 per month, or $25 per month on yearly billing, for the team rather than per seat. A lifetime option is $1,000 once.

Each change is a short summary, the author, and a link back to GitHub. When the change belongs to a pull request, the link uses that pull request number. Otherwise it uses a short commit id.

Slack groups the lines under Feature, Bugfix, Improvement, Chore, and Refactoring. The header is the date for a daily digest, or the date range for a weekly one. Email shows the first five changes in each repository, with lines added and removed. If the window is empty, Slack says there were no code changes.

The replace standups guide walks through using that delivery in place of a status meeting. The digest examples page shows three real lines from public changelogs, with the Slack tag, the email shape, and an illustrative standup line for each.

What does a GitHub digest link do? In Git Digest, the public link is a shareable changelog for one repository. Turn it on in the repository settings and anyone can open the page without signing in. They cannot see the rest of the workspace.

The page lives at a URL like /changelogs/owner/repo. Repositories with the public link on are listed for an owner, for example /changelogs/sunergos-ro. Open one repository, such as sunergos-ro/og-pilot, and you get the same kind of summary the digest is built from: one sentence per change, the author, and lines added and removed.

The public page is the changelog you can share. Slack and email are the scheduled copy for the team. Inside those messages, each change links to the commit or pull request on GitHub. Email also includes a link to that repository's changes inside Git Digest, for people who are already in the workspace.

Some results for a github digest describe Gitingest, which turns a repository into text for a language model. Git Digest summarizes what landed in GitHub and posts that digest to Slack and email for the team. The GitHub digest comparison is the side-by-side of those two products.