A little command line utility that uses boto to send email to my micro managing boss for every git command I push to a repo. It's not that he wants all commits but rather a list of every commit I do (that's the same thing to me to....). I created an Amazon SNS Topic with an email subscription. When I publish to the topic an email is sent.

aws_sns_publish_git_commits.py

import boto.sns
import git
import argparse

#Default git repo location so you don't have to pass it on the cli using --repo
git_repo_location = "/some/path/on/disk/to/git/repo"

#Log into the AWS SNS console to get this value
#https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns/home and click on the topic you want
topic_arn = u'arn:aws:sns:region:.*:topic_name'

def parse_cli_options():
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Send git email notificiations using Amazon SNS')
  parser.add_argument('-c', '--commits', nargs="+", help='Commit(s) to send in Email', metavar='COMMIT')
  parser.add_argument('--repo','-r', type=str, help='Path to git repository', default=git_repo_location)
  return parser

def create_message_and_subject(repo_path, commits):
  git_repo = git.repo.Repo(repo_path)
  	
  message = ""
  has_valid_commit = False
	
  for commit in commits:
    try:
      git_commit = git_repo.commit(commit)
      message += git_commit.hexsha + '\n'
      message += git_commit.message
      message += '\n' + ('=' * 79) + '\n'
      has_valid_commit = True
    except:
      print commit + " is not valid.  Skipping"
    	
  #Subject line
  subject = 'Commit'
  if len(commits) > 1:
    subject += 's '
    for c in commits:
      subject += (c + ' ')
  else:
    subject += ' ' + commits[0]
  
  data = {}
  data['message'] = message
  data['subject'] = subject
  data['valid'] = has_valid_commit
  
  return data

def publish_to_amazon_sns_topic(topic_arn,data):
  if data['valid']:
    sns = boto.sns.SNSConnection()
    message = data['message']
    subject = data['subject']
    sns.publish(topic_arn,message,subject)

def main():
  parser = parse_cli_options()	
  args = parser.parse_args()
	
  if args.commits < 1:		
    parser.print_help()
    print "ERROR:  Must have at least one commit specificed!"
    exit(1)
  
  sns_info = create_message_and_subject(args.repo, args.commits)
  publish_to_amazon_sns_topic(topic_arn,sns_info)
	
if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()