A fun CLI hack to automatically tweet about every git commit.

Prerequisites

npm install ntwitter npm install -g grunt-cli

Custom Grunt Tweet Task

grunt.registerTask('tweet', 'Tweet the commit info', function() {
  var twitter = require('twitter');
  var shell = require('shelljs');
  
  var commit_comment = shell.exec('git log -1 --pretty=%B').output
    .replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, '');
  var repo = shell.exec('basename $(git remote show -n origin | grep Fetch | cut -d: -f2-)').output
    .replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, '');
  var author = shell.exec("git --no-pager show -s --format='%an'").output
    .replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, '');
  
  var tweet = util.format('%s on %s by %s', commit_comment, repo, author);
  
  var twit = new twitter({
    consumer_key: 'Twitter',
    consumer_secret: 'API',
    access_token_key: 'keys',
    access_token_secret: 'go here'
  });
  
  twit.updateStatus(tweet, function(err, data) {
    console.log(data);
  });
});

Have a pre-commit hook at .git/hooks/pre-commit calling grunt tweet to tweet on every commit!

The tweet would be something like: 'jshint suggestions from @passy on yo.git by Hemanth.HM'