Gitshots Post-Commit Hook

post-commit.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Requires imagesnap from https://github.com/alexwilliamsca/imagesnap (brew install imagesnap)
# To assemble the video use http://www.dayofthenewdan.com/projects/tlassemble

file="~/.gitshots/#{Time.now.to_i}.jpg"
puts "Taking capture into #{file}!"
system "imagesnap -q -w 3 #{file}"
exit 0

Fore a pure shell implementation:

#!/bin/sh
imagesnap -q $HOME/.gitshots/$(date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s").jpg &

This has the advantage of being run in the background, so you don't have to wait for the camera to finish after each commit.

Or you could simplify it like this ;)

#!/bin/sh
imagesnap -q $HOME/.gitshots/$(date "+%s").jpg &

Because on my system date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "date" "+%s" fails to convert date

For Linux/Ubuntu you can use streamer..

file="~/.gitshots/#{Time.now.to_i}.jpg"
puts "Taking capture into #{file}!"
system "streamer -f jpeg #{file}"
exit 0