gitnotify is a simple shell script designed to send nice HTML diff from hooks. It was based on HTML and CSS code from svnnotify and shell logic from diff2html shell script

1. Clone the git repo

    git clone git://github.com/slayer/gitnotify.git
   

2. Make symlink to your script directory (eg ~/bin)

    ln -s path/to/gitnotify/gitnotify ~/bin
   

3. Edit .git/hooks/post-commit script

    echo '[ -x ~/bin/gitnotify ] && ~/bin/gitnotify -m [email protected] -s "[DIFF] My repo notify"' >>.git/hooks/post-commit
   

4. Add execute bit to scripts

    chmod a+x ~/bin/gitnotify
    chmod a+x .git/hooks/post-commit
   

5. Enjoy

• For Debian users: please use bsd-mailx instead of heirloom-mailx

Quick install for etckeeper

    bash < <(curl -s https://github.com/slayer/gitnotify/raw/master/etckeeper.sh)