This script can be run on a Git repository to record its current state without changing the history. It records a hash (if something has changed) into a log file. It is meant to be run every X minutes to essentially auto-save a git-repo. It is working. A

gitPrime.sh

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branchName=`git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'`
gitPrimeFile=gitPrime.log
gitPrimeStashHash=$(git stash create) ;
gitPrimeHEADHash=$(git rev-parse HEAD) ;
gitPrimeLastStash=".git/gitPrimeLast.log";

message=$(date; echo "  branch: $branchName   -- stash object created by git-prime (DIRTY Working Directory)") ;

echo $message
# check if there is a stashable hash
echo $gitPrimeStashHash
foo=( $gitPrimeStashHash )

echo ${#gitPrimeStashHash}
length=${#gitPrimeStashHash}
lengthNum=$((length))
echo $lengthNum
if [ $lengthNum -gt 10 ]; then
	echo "dirty working dir - might write stash"
	echo `grep $gitPrimeStashHash $gitPrimeFile `
	echo $gitPrimeStashHash $gitPrimeFile
	
	foo=`grep $gitPrimeStashHash $gitPrimeFile `
	echo "foo1 $foo"
	
	lastStashHash=`cat $gitPrimeLastStash`
	foo=`git diff $lastStashHash $gitPrimeStashHash`
	echo "foo is:::"  $foo
	length=${#foo}
	lengthNum=$((length))
	echo "lastStashHash:  $lastStashHash"
	echo "thisStashHash   $gitPrimeStashHash"
	if [ $lengthNum -gt 5 ]; then
#		echo $gitPrimeStashHash  $message  >> $gitPrimeFile;
		echo "writing stash"
		echo $gitPrimeStashHash  $message  >> $gitPrimeFile;
		echo $gitPrimeStashHash > $gitPrimeLastStash
	else
		echo "last stash obj has no differences with current. not writing stash hash"
	fi	
else
	echo "no dirty working dir. so might write HEAD hash"
	
	foo=`grep $gitPrimeHEADHash $gitPrimeFile `
	echo "foo1 $foo"
	if [ -z "$foo" ]; then
		echo "writing HEAD hash"
		message=$(date; echo "  branch: $branchName   -- HEAD hash captured by git-prime (CLEAN Working Directory)") ;	
		echo $gitPrimeHEADHash  $message  >> $gitPrimeFile;
	else
		echo "NOT writing HEAD hash because it was found in the gitPrime log file"
	fi
	
fi

echo "Script END"