Git hooks

README.md

@@ -12,9 +12,26 @@ $ npm install -g git-stats
 ```
 
 ### Catching the `git commit` command
-Would you like to catch and automatically store the commits when you do `git commit`?
+Would you like to catch and automatically store the commits when you do `git commit`? If so, try one of the following solutions.
 
-If so, put the following lines in your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.bash_profile` on OS X) file:
+#### Using `git` hooks
+The way I recommend to track your git commits is to use git hooks. Run the following command to initialize the `post-commit` git hook.
+
+```sh
+# Using curl
+curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats/master/scripts/init-git-post-commit | bash
+
+# ...or wget
+wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats/master/scripts/init-git-post-commit | bash
+```
+
+Then, you have to run `git init` into your existing git repositories from your local machine (that's because the `post-commit` should be updated). This
+step will not be needed after clonning a repository (the git hooks will be added automatically from `~/.git-templates`).
+
+#### Overriding the `git` command
+One of the solutions is becoming a mad scientist, overriding the `git` command with a function. However, this may not work for you if you're using `zsh`.
+
+Add the following lines in your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.bash_profile` on OS X) file:
 
 ```sh
 # Override the Git command

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "git-stats",
-  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
   "description": "A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.",
   "main": "lib/index.js",
   "bin": {
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@
     "moment": "^2.9.0",
     "ul": "^1.1.0"
   }
-}
+}

scripts/init-git-post-commit

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+git_templates_dir="$HOME/.git-templates"
+git_hooks_dir="$git_templates_dir/hooks"
+post_commit_path="$git_hooks_dir/post-commit"
+
+git config --global init.templatedir $git_templates_dir
+mkdir -p $git_hooks_dir
+
+cat << EOF > $post_commit_path
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Copy last commit hash to clipboard on commit
+commit_hash=\`git rev-parse HEAD\`
+repo_url=\`git config --get remote.origin.url\`
+commit_date=\`git log -1 --format=%cd\`
+commit_data="\"{ \"date\": \"\$commit_date\", \"url\": \"\$repo_url\", \"hash\": \"\$commit_hash\" }\""
+git-stats --record "\$commit_data"
+EOF
+
+chmod +x $post_commit_path