Making git auto-commit

Question

I\'d like to use git to record all the changes to a file.

Is there a way I can turn git \'commit\' on to automatically happen every time a file is updated - so ther

Answer 1

I wanted to do this in windows, and found the best way was to use Directory Monitor to check for changes then when it detected a change have it run:

Program: cmd.exe

Params: /C C:\pathToBatchFile.bat

That batch file contained:

c:
cd c:\gitRepoDirectory\
(if exist "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%" (
"%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i -c "git commit -am AutoCommitMessage"
) else (
"%PROGRAMFILES%\git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i -c "git commit -am AutoCommitMessage"
))

I also tried having another command in there to add files ("%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i -c "git add *.*"), but I don't think I got that working properly.

I also made a post-commit hook containing:

#!/bin/sh
git.exe pull -v --progress  "origin"
git.exe push    --progress  "origin" master:master
curl.exe -s https://webserverdomain.com/updateFromGitHook.x?r=repoName

(If there were any conflicts then it would abort the pull and abort the push, but there wasn't any clear way to tell that had happened - in the end we abandoned the whole idea because of this one flaw.)

That curl command told my server that it needed to do a pull on the code. All that was needed to handle it in php was:

The only problem with that was it needed to be run by the root user instead of the apache user, so I also had to make a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ containing:

www-data ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/git

For me, I think that worked pretty solidly. Directory Monitor can be configured to run on startup and start minimized, and it can watch several different folders