Genlog is a tool to automatically commit all code in its current state, along with a thumbnail based on the most recently generated file. The commit is added in the currently active branch.
This tool only works if you generate png files named after the convention of
fn listed in the requirements below.
If you run ./example.py && genlog res the following things will happen:
example.pywill create a file named something likeres/20160520-183502-785780-14de7ef-94310b2.png. This is to emulate the result of some script.- Genlog will then create a thumbnail of this file and store it in
.genlog. - Genlog will proceed to commit all files in the repo (
git commit -A), along with the thumbnail. If there are no changes, only the thumbnail will be commited.
res is the name of the directory where Genlog should look for images. If you
simply run genlog it will look in the current directory.
You can also run genlog seperately:
./example.py
genlog res
And you can add information to the commit message:
genlog res -m "this was a good result."
You can export an environment variable to make genlog commit as a different author. This string needs to be a valid email (preferably associated with your Github account):
export GENLOG_USER_EMAIL='youremail+genlog@gmail.com'
I frequently experiment with generative algorithms. This tool is an attempt to make it easier to store various results along the way.
Please note that this does create a lot of extra commits, which is probably not what you want in your projects in practice.
Some more discussion on twitter: https://twitter.com/inconvergent/status/732522970619465728
fn: https://github.com/inconvergent/fnpython-imaging:apt-get install python3-imaging
Install using either (as sudo)
./setup.py install
Or
./setup.py develop
The latter is most convenient if you will be editing the code.
- Introduce Large File Storage? https://git-lfs.github.com/
- optipng to reduce file size.
This could be useful: