Git commit logger for daily stand-up meeting

Question

At work, my team hosts a daily standup, in which we discuss what we're working on, what we did the day before and any potential blockers for future development.

I thought as a fun little side project that I would write a script in bash to go through each directory in my /dev/ folder and get all commits from the previous day.

We use Git for the most part, but I do have one or two repositories still under a different source control system. This code is to mitigate that problem 2>> /dev/null;.

Here is the code:

gitUsername="userNameHere"
echo "Here are yesterday's commits:"
for dir in ./*/ ;
 do (cd "$dir"; git log --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cD) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --since yesterday --author $gitUsername} 2>> /dev/null;);
done;
echo "That's everything." 

I have never written anything in bash before, so any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Also, just a side note in case anybody is interested, we don't read commits to measure workload, I am printing them more as a reminder of the things I was working on the day before.

Answer 1

A much much much much better way of doing this is:

find . -type f -exec git --no-pager log --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cD) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --since yesterday {} --author $gitUsername \;

And a cleaner way to write long statements it to add '\' to break into new lines.

find . -type f \
-exec git --no-pager log --pretty=format: \
'%Cred%h%Creset -%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cD) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' \
--since yesterday {} \
--author "${gitUsername}" \;

This way, 7 lines are written as 1 and to stdout.

• --no-pager returns everything to your terminal stdout instead your editor.
• find . says which directory to search in, so a for loop may be useful to only search desired directories
• Also, explicitly defining the desired dirs will remove the need to redirect to stderr and when useful errors are displayed, will be meaningful to you.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/find

https://www.golinuxcloud.com/find-exec-multiple-commands-examples-unix/

• Jessica: I like this approach, thanks! The only one I don't agree with is the third point. I want this to be dynamic as I clone or remove a repository maybe once every week or two, so therefore don't want to have to keep a list.
• Arlion: Then changing the find . directory to the larger directory which stores all of your git repositories will do what you desire.