Re: Commiting automatically

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:43, Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz> wrote:
> I'm going to run periodically a process which uses the current working tree and
> I'd like to protocol what happens. As a part of the protocol I need the exact
> state of the working tree and that's what is git good for, right? But it must
> neither disturb my normal workflow nor interfere with my ordinal commits. I
> could probably use something like
...
> Even if there were no problems, it's not very nice. It uses an additional
> repository which is quite strange. Moreover, there's no way to find out how the
> saved working tree snapshot is related to existing ordinal commits.

Try using low-level git commands (the "plumbing").
Take a look at GIT_INDEX_FILE environment variable and
"git write-tree", "git commit-tree" and "git update-ref", in
addition to "git add".

I.e. (untested):

  $ (
  export GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/myindex
  git add . &&
  tree=$(git write-tree) &&
  commit=$(date |git commit-tree $tree -p protocol) &&
  git update-ref -m autolog protocol $commit
  )