Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma

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Auto sync GIT repos in MAC

Use the following to auto-commit your changes in git repo. The commit will include the file changed. You can control the monitor interval by changing the variable sleeptime in git-commit-repos.sh. All the git operations are logged in /tmp/gitwatch-commit.log.

Use cases:

  • syncing your notes repository automatically eg. Sublime ZK

Requirements:

Steps:

  • Make sure all the required softwares are installed
  • Create new folder gitwatch in your home folder
  • Copy git-commit-repos.sh and git-commit-unattended.sh files in the gitwatch folder
  • git-commit-repos.sh
#!/bin/bash
# send notification on start 
/usr/local/opt/terminal-notifier/bin/terminal-notifier -title "Status" -message "Gitwatch online."

repos=(
"/Users/dev/git/scripts"
"<ANOTHER REPO PATH>"
"<YET ANOTHER REPO PATH>"
);

path="$HOME/gitwatch/"
sleeptime=600

for repo in ${repos[*]}
do
 /usr/local/opt/terminal-notifier/bin/terminal-notifier -title "Gitwatch" -message "working on $repo"
 running=$(ps aux | grep -wv "^\s*$$" | grep -v "grep" | grep "/usr/local/opt/fswatch/bin/fswatch" | grep $repo | wc -l);

 ## exit if already running
 if [ $running -gt 0 ];then
  /usr/local/opt/terminal-notifier/bin/terminal-notifier -title "Gitwatch" -message "Exiting on $repo"
  exit 0;
 fi

 ## exclude files with -e <file>
 ## 4913 is file created by neovim on edit
 /usr/local/opt/fswatch/bin/fswatch -r "$repo" -l $sleeptime -e '.vscode/settings.json' -e '.saved_searches.zks' -e ".search_results.zkr" -e ".lock" -e "4913" -o -e ".DS_Store" -e ".git" -e ".*\.swp" -e ".*~" --event=Created --event=Updated --event=Removed -0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -I {} basename {} | xargs -I{} "$PATH/git-commit-unattended.sh" "$repo" {} &>> /tmp/gitwatch-commit.log &
done
  • git-commit-unattended.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo "\n`date`\n=============\n"$1"\n"
echo "starting commiting... $1" 

cd "$1"
CHAGNEdFILES=`git status --porcelain | cut -c 4- | tr '\n\r' ',' | sed -e 's/\%$//' | sed -e 's/,$//'`
/usr/bin/git -C "$1" pull
/usr/bin/git -C "$1" add .
/usr/bin/git -C "$1" commit -m "Changed: $CHAGNEdFILES"
/usr/bin/git -C "$1" push

echo "finished commiting"
/usr/local/opt/terminal-notifier/bin/terminal-notifier -title "$1" -message "synced"
  • Copy com.gitwatch.dev.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents
  • com.gitwatch.dev.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.gitwatch.dev</string>

    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>bash</string>
        <string>-c</string>
        <string>~/gitwatch/git-commit-repos.sh</string>
    </array>

    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>

    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>~/Documents/</string>

    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/gitwatch/gitwatch.out.log</string>

    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/gitwatch/gitwatch.err.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>
  • Run following commands in terminal
    • launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.gitwatch.dev.plist
    • launchctl start ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.gitwatch.dev.plist
  • Change the repo, path and sleeptime as desired.
  • Check if working via
    • tail -f /tmp/gitwatch-commit.log
    • bash -x git-commit-repos.sh

Sources:

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