git-autocommit

This is an amazing small tool, which automates your usage of GIT. On every file change it creates a commit and pushes it to your remote GIT repository.

Prerequisites

Clone the watchman project from Facebook Link

git clone https://github.com/facebook/watchman

Build and install watchman

cd watchman
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Test if watchman is correctly installed in your PATH

which watchman

Should return something like

/usr/local/bin/watchman

Now start your first git-autocommit project

Just define your start script, let's say we name it start-watchman.sh:

#!/bin/bash
watchman watch ~/projects/git-autocommit
watchman -- trigger ~/projects/git-autocommit auto-commit '*' -- ./auto-commit.sh

As you can see, we just use our own GitHub project git-autocommit to demonstrate how it works.
With watchman we just start a trigger command, which will be fired every time a single file is changed within our directory structure. That's all.

And here is the damned simple auto-commit.sh script:

#!/bin/bash
git add --all
git commit -am "Changed file $*, Auto-Commit V0.1"
git push

Now, let's start the show:

./start-watchman.sh

Just use it

Hey guys, that's all. Just simply use it. Ok, it's not completed nor perfect right now. But I think it's a good starting point. And once again, this GitHub project I've just created and edited while an active watchman was running my auto-commit.sh script. On every single file save from my editor, I'm instantly getting a new commit pushed automatically to the remote GitHub repository.

Credits

Thanks to this great article I found yesterday about the functions of watchman and how it could help to easily automate even single tasks of a developers life.

Watchman: Faster builds with large source trees, by Wez Ferlong.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Dieter Reuter