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* About

  ~git-auto-commit-mode~ is a minor mode for GNU Emacs that, when
  enabled, tries to commit changes to a file after every save.  It can
  also try to push to the default upstream.

  | Status   | On-hold    |
  | Language | Emacs Lisp |
  | Licennse | GPLv3      |

* Features

  - Automatically commit changes to a file after each save.

    - The commit message will contain the file name relative to the
      repository root.

  - Optionally, automatically push commits to the default upstream.

* Requirements

  - [[http://gnu.org/software/emacs][GNU Emacs]]
  - [[http://git-scm.com][git]]

* Download

  There are download links for a ~tar.gz~ and a ~zip~ file of the latest
  development version at the top of this page.

  ~git-auto-commit-mode~ is in the [[http://marmalade-repo.org/][Marmalade]] repo.

* Install

  Once you have [[Download][downloaded]] ~git-auto-commit-mode~ you have at least 2
  choices for installation.

** package.el

   If you have Emacs v24+ or [[http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html][package.el]] and Marmalade configured, you
   can just:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
     (package-install "git-auto-commit-mode")
   #+END_SRC

** manual

   Otherwise you have to [[Download][dowload]] it and then put it somewhere in your
   =load-path=, or add that location to your =load-path=:

   #+begin_src emacs-lisp
     (add-to-list 'load-path "~/location/of/git-auto-commit-mode")
   #+end_src

   After which you can either ~require~ the package in your Emacs init
   file:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
     (require 'git-auto-commit-mode)
   #+END_SRC

   Or set-up some autoloads:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
     (autoload 'git-auto-commit-mode "git-auto-commit-mode" nil t)
   #+END_SRC

* Usage

   There are a few ways this could be used:

** As file-local variable

   This is the way I use it and I wanted to use it.  Any file that you
   would like to have automatically committed upon saving gets this
   prop-line:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
     ;; -*- eval: (git-auto-commit-mode 1) -*-
   #+END_SRC

   Or, if you're in anything older than emacs 24:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
     ;; -*- mode: git-auto-commit -*-
   #+END_SRC

** As a directory-local variable

   Put the following in a ~.dir-locals.el~ file in any directory where
   you want to enable ~git-auto-commit-mode~ for *all* files:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
     ((nil . ((git-auto-commit-mode . t))))
   #+END_SRC

** As a hook

   I doubt this will ever really be useful, but it is possible:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
     (add-hook 'some-hook 'git-auto-commit-mode)
   #+END_SRC

** Automatically push

   If you wish to push your changes each time the file is saved you
   should set =gac-automatically-push-p= to =t=.  This is a buffer local
   variable, so you will have to put it in your dir-local or
   file-local variables.  Alternatively, if you're sure you can also
   set the default value to =t=, like so:

   #+begin_src emacs-lisp
     (setq-default gac-automatically-push-p t)
   #+end_src