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

Inotify really sounds like the right tool for the job.

There is a tool called incron which could be exactly what you are looking for. You can specify files or folders (and event types, like "change", "create", "unlink") in something like a crontab, and a command to run when such an event occurs.

In contrast to inotifywait (which would be the analog of the poor man's cron sleep 10;do stuff), this will catch every event, not just the first.

I haven't used it myself, but from the documentation it doesn't look too complex to setup.