lmullen · July 27, 2013 17:41 · Jul 27, 2013
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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+# Write git commit messages to a log file
+# 
+# Lincoln A. Mullen | lincoln@lincolnmullen.com | http://lincolnmullen.com
+# MIT License <http://lmullen.mit-license.org/>
+#
+# You will have to install the git gem for this to work:
+#   gem install git
+#
+# Name this file 'post-commit' and drop it in the directory '.git/hooks'  in
+# any repository that you want to log. Make sure the file is executable. You
+# can also add this to your git templates, which will put it in every new
+# repository or to existing repositories by re-running git init.  
+# 
+# A commit message in the log should look this this:
+#   2013-07-26-11-25-55 [repository:branch] First line of commit message
+
+require "git"
+
+log_file = "/home/lmullen/todo/time-use.txt"
+repo = Git.open(Dir.pwd)
+repo_name = Dir.pwd[%r{[\.\-\w]+$}]                       # top directory
+date = repo.log.first.date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S")  # format date
+message = repo.log.first.message.lines.first.strip        # just first line
+branch = repo.log.first.name
+File.open(log_file, "a") do |log|                        
+  log.puts "#{date} [#{repo_name}:#{branch}] #{message}"  
+end
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