Daily backup of local git changes

While working on a ticket and not ready to commit, it's a good idea to backup all of our changes to an archive file.

The following script does all that and executed daily by cronjob automatically.

1. create a file, say "backup" in /etc/cron.daily
2. Type the following (change '<yourhome directory>' to your own login name and <git location> to the git directory where source codes are located):

backing up changed files to tarball

#!/bin/sh pushd <your source-code location> LIST=`git status --porcelain | sed -n -e '/^ [D|M]/p' | sed -e 's/^ [D|M] //'` backupname=`git branch | sed -n -e "/^* /p" | sed  -e 's/** //'` backupname=$backupname-`date "+%s"`.backup.tar.bz2 dest='<your home directory>' if [ ! -d "$dest" ] then     mkdir -p $dest fi tar jcvf $dest/$backupname $LIST > /dev/null

Make the file executable:

chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/backup