pre-commit-annex hook script to automatically extract metadata from lots of types of files

Using the extract(1) program to do the heavy lifting.

Decided to make git-annex run pre-commit-annex when committing. Since
git-annex pre-commit also runs it, it'll be run when git commit is run too,
via the pre-commit hook. This basically gives back the pre-commit hook
that git-annex took away. The implementation avoids repeatedly looking
for the hook script when the assistant is running and committing
repeatedly; only checks if the hook is available once.

To make the script simpler, made git-annex metadata -s field?=value
only set a field when it's not already got a value.

This commit was sponsored by bak.

1 files changed, 61 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/tips/automatically_adding_metadata/pre-commit-annex b/doc/tips/automatically_adding_metadata/pre-commit-annex
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+#!/bin/sh
+# This script can be used to add git-annex metadata to files when they're
+# committed.
+#
+# Copyright 2014 Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
+# License: GPL-3+
+
+extract="$(git config metadata.extract || true)" 
+want="$(perl -e 'print (join("|", map {s/_/ /g; "^$_ - "} (split " ", shift())))' "$extract")"
+
+if [ -z "$want" ]; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+echo "$want"
+
+case "$(git config --bool metadata.overwrite || true)" in
+	true)
+		overwrite=1
+	;;
+	*)
+		overwrite=""
+	;;
+esac
+
+# By default, any existing metadata git-annex has stored is not overwritten
+# with metadata taken from files. Uncomment this to enable.
+#overwrite_metadata=1
+
+addmeta () {
+	file="$1"
+	field="$2"
+	value="$3"
+	afield="$(echo "$field" | tr ' ' _)"
+	if [ "$overwrite" ]; then
+		p="$afield=$value"
+
+	else
+		p="$afield?=$value"
+	fi
+	git -c annex.alwayscommit=false annex metadata "$file" -s "$p" --quiet
+}
+
+if git rev-parse --verify HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+	against=HEAD
+else
+	# Initial commit: diff against an empty tree object
+	against=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
+fi
+
+IFS="
+"
+for f in $(git diff-index --name-only --cached $against); do
+	if [ -e "$f" ]; then
+		for l in $(extract "$f" | egrep "$want"); do
+			field="${l%% - *}"
+			value="${l#* - }"
+			addmeta "$f" "$field" "$value"
+		done
+	fi
+done