This is a basic, elementary script to audit a git working copy. This is useful to keep a watchful eye on cowboy coding on a client server.

Save the following inside your git repo as .git-status.sh. Make sure to add ‘.git-status.sh’ to your .gitignore file.

#!/bin/sh
DOMAIN = "http://whatever.com"
SENDTO = "your@email.com"
MODIFICATIONS=`git status -s`
if [ ! -z "$MODIFICATIONS" ]
then
        SUBJECT = "git changes from $DOMAIN"
        EMAIL = "$SENDTO"
        BODY = "/tmp/emailbody.txt"
        echo "Changes found on the following paths:\n" > $EMAILBODY
        echo "$MODIFICATIONS" >> $EMAILBODY
        mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $EMAILBODY
        echo "$MODIFICATIONS"
fi

To automate, add a crontab:

30 15 * * * /path/to/your/script/.git-status.sh 2>&1>> /dev/null