--- title: How I log every Git commit to a plain text file | daily.dev description: A developer shares how they set up a Git post-commit hook to automatically log every commit to a single plain text file, organized by date and project in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-log-every-git-commit-to-a-plain-text-file-tkytafsgi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I log every Git commit to a plain text file | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares how they set up a Git post-commit hook to automatically log every commit to a single plain text file, organized by date and project in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-log-every-git-commit-to-a-plain-text-file-tkytafsgi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tKYtAFsgi.png og:image:alt: How I log every Git commit to a plain text file og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I log every Git commit to a plain text file **[Flavio Copes](https://daily.dev/sources/flaviocopes)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares how they set up a Git post-commit hook to automatically log every commit to a single plain text file, organized by date and project in reverse-chronological order. The post explains why post-commit was chosen over post-push (Cursor's postToolUse event missed real commits, and Git has no native post-push hook), walks through the Python logger script that captures repo, branch, and commit subject, and describes a Cursor beforeShellExecution hook that auto-installs the post-commit hook in each new project before the first commit — so no manual setup is needed per repository. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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