Daily git commit emails
Git can send an email for each git push into the repository using the post-receive hook . I wanted to have daily messages, as opposed to one for each commit. The following script does that: #!/bin/bash # duration of log (default: daily) as offset since now RELDATE="24 hours ago" # email recipient EMAIL=a@b # bare repository home GITROOT=/opt/git/nexus # branch BRANCH=refs/heads/master cd $GITROOT/hooks # the latest commit NEWREV=`git rev-list -n 1 HEAD` # the latest commit not to report OLDREV=`git rev-list -n 1 --date=relative --until="$RELDATE" HEAD` # only send an email if there are commits if [[ $NEWREV == $OLDREV ]] then exit 0 fi /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email \ $BRANCH $OLDREV $NEWREV | /usr/sbin/sendmail $EMAIL Change the GITROOT variable to point to the root of your repository and create a daily cron job: crontab -e For instance 12 2 * * * /usr/sbin/git-dailylog.sh Some assumptions: This might only work f