Git post-commit hook to save daily activity into a file

post-commit.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Setup : https://coderwall.com/p/jp7d5q/create-a-global-git-commit-hook

today=$(date +%d-%m-%Y)

log_file_name=”git-commits-$today.txt”
log_dir=”$HOME/Desktop”
log_file_path=”$log_dir/$log_file_name”

remote=$(git config — get remote.origin.url)
if [ -z “$remote” ]; then
 remote=”no_origin_remote”
fi

branch=$(git rev-parse — abbrev-ref HEAD)

commit_message=$(git log -1 — pretty=’%s’)
commit_date=$(git log -1 — pretty=’%ai’ | cut -f1 -d”+”)

message=”$commit_date | $branch@$remote | $commit_message”

echo $message$’\r’ >> $log_file_path