Learn something new some days. Did not know about incron (or forgot).
If you need to automatically commit changed files (like configs), this looks good.
http://arne-koehn.de/blog/2010-07-24-automatic_git_commit/
The run down in case that goes away sometime:
1. Install incron (currently in Debian / Ubuntu). 2. Create a git repo for the /directory/to/watch cd /directory/to/watch git init git add file1 file2 (up to the number of files you want to commit) 3. Add the user to /etc/incron.allow - the one that runs the scripts and has the repo. 4. incrontab -e - add a line like this: /directory/to/watch/ IN_MODIFY /script/to/run/bin/checkin.sh That will run on file modification. 5. Make some changes and check it out with: git log