A handy little shell script to schedule with crontab to regularly commit the latest version of a web server to Github.

commit-www-to-github.sh

#!/bin/bash
logfile=/var/www/git.log
exec >> $logfile 2>&1
date +"%Y-%m-%d %r"
cd /var/www
git fetch -q origin
git merge origin/master
git submodule update --recursive
git add -A .
git commit -q -m 'Auto Backup'
git push -q origin master
echo "---"