Hi,
[long Cc: list culled, as they probably forgot about this thread]
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> That said, out of pure curiousness I came up with the attached script
> which just uses inotifywait to watch a directory and issue git commands
> on certain events. It is extremely stupid, but seems to work. And at
> least it hasn't got the drawbacks of a real gitfs regarding the need to
> have a "separate" non-versioned storage area for the working directory,
> because it simply uses the existing working directory wherever that
> might be stored. It doesn't use GIT_DIR/WORK_DIR yet, but hey, should be
> easy to add...
>
> Feel free to mess with that thing, hey, maybe you even like it and
> extend it to match your proposed workflow even more. I for sure won't
> use or even extend it, so you're likely on your own there.
>
> Side-note: Writing that script probably took less time than writing this
> email and probably less time than was wasted on this topic. Makes me
> want to use today's preferred "Code talks, b...s... walks" statement,
> but I'll refrain from that... Just because I lack the credibility to say
> that, and the script attached is quite crappy ;-)
I could not agree more with the statement.
As it happens, I have a very delicate setup that we tested in a test
environment as much as possible, but now we have to deploy it and I want
to be able to rewind very quickly to a known-good state.
So I adjusted your script a little. It now reads like this:
-- snip --
#!/bin/sh
# Originally by Bjoern Steinbrink, simplified by Johannes Schindelin
inotifywait -m -r --exclude ^\./\.git/.* \
-e close_write -e move -e create -e delete . 2>/dev/null |
while read FILE_PATH EVENT FILE_NAME
do
FILE_NAME="$FILE_PATH$FILE_NAME"
FILE_NAME=${FILE_NAME#./}
# git doesn't care about directories
test -d "$FILE_NAME" && continue
case "$EVENT" in
*MOVED_TO*|*CREATE*)
git add "$FILE_NAME"
git commit -m "$FILE_NAME created"
;;
*CLOSE_WRITE*|*MODIFY*)
git add "$FILE_NAME"
git commit -m "$FILE_NAME changed"
;;
*DELETE*|*MOVED_FROM*)
git rm --cached "$FILE_NAME"
git commit -m "$FILE_NAME removed"
;;
esac
done
-- snap --
Thanks for your original script!
Ciao,
Dscho