Pretty cool idea, and definitely simpler than writing code to spit out HTML/Atom feeds for your co-workers. Couple of comments...
The first one-liner can be replaced with:
echo last_message | sed 's,^[^ ]* ,,'
or if you /bin/sh is always bash:
sed 's,^[^ ]* ,,' <<< $last_message
And the second one-liner is just basename, so os.path.basename if you
really want to use Python or simply the basename command if you don't. Again, if your /bin/sh is bash/ksh you can use ${last_message##*/}
And a question; What version of git has an info command by the way? Don't have it on my systems.
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Great! Thank you for that sed command.
About the second one-liner, it's the git info returns this:
"== Remote URL: origin ssh://root@git.fry-it.com/var/cache/git/waf"
So basename wouldn't work on that.
I'm using 1.5.6.3 from Ubuntu to get git info.
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Pretty cool idea, and definitely simpler than writing code to spit out HTML/Atom feeds for your co-workers. Couple of comments... The first one-liner can be replaced with: echo last_message | sed 's,^[^ ]* ,,' or if you /bin/sh is always bash: sed 's,^[^ ]* ,,' <<< $last_message And the second one-liner is just basename, so os.path.basename if you really want to use Python or simply the basename command if you don't. Again, if your /bin/sh is bash/ksh you can use ${last_message##*/} And a question; What version of git has an info command by the way? Don't have it on my systems.
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Python's os.path.basename, basename from coreutils and busybox's basename all do the "right thing" with your example string.
On my systems, running 1.6.2.3, I'd use `git config --get remote.origin.url' to get for example "git@github.com:JNRowe/misc-overlay.git"
I think I know what you mean but the whole string starts with "== Remote URL: " which means that basename fails on it.
$ repo_name=`git info | head -n1`
$ basename $repo_name
basename: extra operand `URL:'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
My fault, I should have used an example.
basename "$repo_name"
it is the quoting that is important, it makes basename treat the string as an ugly space and symbol including filename