Git Log Mailer

This is a simple python script which will fetch logs from git and send it as a mail. All the configurations are defined in config.py

Dependencies

Libraries

• subprocess
• jinja2
• smtplib
• datetime
• MIMEMultipart
• MIMEText

Git logging format

For this mail to work perfectly. The commit message should have specific format. The format is commit message pipe (|) link pipe status in caps. Here

• commit message is the actual message you want to add
• link is the link to the issue or feature which you were trying to resolve or implement
• status is the current status of the todo (INPROGRESS | COMPLETED)

commit message | link | STATUS

Usage

python sendMail.py

Configs

repos

You can add multiple repos. This field will accept array of dictionaries with the following format
repos = [{'name': 'repo_name', 'path':'path_to_folder_repo'}]

###devs This field should the array of name of developers. This should be same as the git global name
devs = ['User']

###log_interval This field defines the interval of log that should be extracted. It is mentioned in weeks
log_interval = 1 # number of weeks log required to show

company_detail

This field accepts a dictionary as input where you can provice name of the organization and url of the logo of the organization. It will be used by the email template to display it on top
company_detail={'name':'name_of_the_company', 'logo':'url_to_the_location'}

recipients

This field defines the recipeints of the mail. It accepts an array of dictionary with name of the recipient and email address recipients = [{'name': 'name_of_the_recipient', 'email':'email_of_the_recipient'}]

sender

This field will hold all the credentials of sender email. It is a dictionary where you can add subject of the mail, from email id, password and smtp server detials

sender={'Subject':'subject_of_the_mail','From':'from_email_id','smtp':'smtp:port','password': "password"}

template_file

This is name of the template file
template_file='email_temp.jinja'

template_folder

This is the location of the template file
template_folder='/home/ubuntu/script/emailSend'

Important Note

This script uses subprocess.check_output with argument shell = True, which is discouraged due to security reasons and could be a threat if used without proper knowledge. Read more about that [here] (https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#frequently-used-arguments)