cronGit

Python script to automatically make changes and git add/commit/push.

Triggered via crontab & runned within virtualenv (with dependencies)

Script will do:

1. Make changes: Add new line in txt file
2. Git auto add/commit/push

Requirements

1. pip:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

2. virtualenv, according to your installed python version:

Python 2.7x: pip install virtualenv

Python 3x: pip3 install virtualenv

or simply: python -m pip install virtualenv

Setup:

1. Meet requirements
2. Clone repo
3. Create virtualenv with virtualenv cronGitEnv
4. Activate env: source cronGitEnv/bin/activate
5. Install dependencies inside the virtualenv (cronGitEnv) pip install Gitpython
6. Setup crontab with crontab -e
7. Press i to edit
8. Paste the following to activate the env & run the python script at minute 0 every 4hs. (Check path to match with your local path)

SHELL=/bin/bash
0 */4 * * * cd projects/cronGit/cronGitEnv && source bin/activate && cd .. && python index.py

Credits

Forked from ospiegel91/cronGit

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