Tagging a commit with build status on GitHub

gh-build-notification.sh

#! /usr/bin/env bash

# Examples
#
# $ gh-build-notification.sh pending "Build in progress"
# $ gh-build-notification.sh failure "Build failed"
# $ gh-build-notification.sh success "Build succeeded"

commit=`git rev-parse HEAD`

json="{\"state\":\"$1\",\"description\":\"$2\",\"target_url\":\"$BUILD_URL\"}"

echo "Sending notification to Github"
echo $json

# http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/#create-a-status
curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: token API-TOKEN" \
  -H "User-Agent: Shell build notifier" \
  -d "$json" \
  --silent \
  --output /dev/null \
  https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/statuses/$commit