Git hook to send email notification on repo changes

Question

How do I configure the appropriate Git hook to send a summary email whenever a set of changes is pushed to the upstream repository?

Answer 1

Robin Sommer's git-notifier generates also very nice summaries in the following format:

Subject: [git/git-notifier] master: Adding www target to Makefile. (7dc1f95)

Repository : ssh:///git-notifier

On branch  : master

>---------------------------------------------------------------

commit 7dc1f95c97275618d5bde1aaf6760cd7ff6a6ef7
Author: Robin Sommer 
Date:   Sun Dec 19 20:21:38 2010 -0800

    Adding www target to Makefile.

>---------------------------------------------------------------

 Makefile |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e184c66..9c9951b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ VERSION   = 0.1

 DISTFILES = git-notifier README COPYING

+WWW = $(HOME)/www/git-notifier
+
 all:

 dist:
@@ -13,3 +15,7 @@ dist:
    cp $(DISTFILES) git-notifier-$(VERSION)
    tar czvf git-notifier-$(VERSION).tgz git-notifier-$(VERSION)
    rm -rf git-notifier-$(VERSION)
+
+www: dist
+   rst2html.py README >$(WWW)/index.html
+   cp git-notifier-$(VERSION).tgz $(WWW)