chmac / dead-man-commit

Automatic dead man switch style git commits, never forget to commit again

dead-man-commit

A dead man's switch for git commits. Automatically commits (and pushes) the selected repositories after 30 minutes of inactivity.

Built with deno.

To get started:

• Ensure you have deno installed
• Clone the repo
• Run scripts/build.sh

You should now have 3 binaries in build/.

Config

When you run the binary it will complain about a missing config directory and file, create those. Example config is as follows:

version: 1
log:
  file: /var/log/dead-man-commit.log
  level: DEBUG
repos:
  - path: /Users/foo/path/to/repo
    delay: 3600
  - path: /Users/foo/path/to/another/repo

Config values

• version - Required, must be 1
• log - Optional
  • file - Optional, path to log file (must be writable), file will be created if it does not exist. If there is no file specified, logs are output to the console.
  • level - Optional, valid values are DEBUG, INFO or ERROR, and is optional.
• repos - Required, an array of repositories to monitor, valid formats are:
  • String, the absolute path to the repository
  • Object containing the keys:
    • path - Required, the absolute path to the repository
    • delay - Optional, the number of seconds to wait after the last activity is detected before making a commit

Cron

To make this useful you probably need to run it from cron or similar somewhat regularly.