Use lolcommits to generate a gif. Upload that gif to your GitHub repo. Amend your commit message to include a link the gif.
#Retrieve your most recent git commit hash and message.
#Anything inside backticks will execute as a command in your shell
#The backtick is located above the tab key on your keyboard
commit = `git log -1 --oneline`
#Isolate the hash and the message.
hash = commit.to_s.split(" ").first
message = commit.sub("#{hash} ", "")
#Unless the commit message already has a link to a gif...
unless(message.gsub("\n","").end_with?(".gif"))
#Create a gif with lolcommits!
`lolcommits --capture --animate=3`
#Find the path to your present working directory, the location
#of your repo on GitHub, your present working directory name
#and the path to which Lolcommits saves your gifs.
repopath = `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`.gsub("\n", "")
repourl = `git config --get remote.origin.url`.gsub("\n", "")
reponame = "#{`basename #{repopath}`.to_s}".gsub("\n", "")
path = "#{File.expand_path('~')}/.lolcommits/#{reponame}/"
#Find the gif with a filename that begins with your latest
#commit hash and create a directory in your repo for storing
#lols and copy in the gif
@filename = nil
Dir.open(path).each do |filename|
if filename.start_with?(hash)
image = path + filename
system("mkdir #{repopath}/lolcommits")
`cp #{image} #{repopath}/lolcommits/#{filename}`
@filename = filename
end
end
#Grab your username and repo name, assemble the url GitHub
#will save the gif to git add the gif and git commit with
#an amended message
unless @filename == nil
githubstuff = repourl.gsub("git@github.com:","").gsub(".git","").gsub("https://github.com/","")
github_image_url = "https://github.com/#{githubstuff}/blob/master/lolcommits/#{@filename}"
`git add #{repopath}/lolcommits/#{@filename}`
`git commit --amend --no-verify -m "#{message} #{github_image_url}"`
end
end