Send git revision of file by mail

Question

I use git repositories for various documents and TortoiseGit to handle them.

Sometimes, I have to send a document to somebody else for revision, or if (s)he requests an older version of it.

I can do that by...

1. Opening the Tortoise git log of the directory.
2. (If needed) Select the commit.
3. Right-click the file.
4. Select "Save revision to".
5. Save the file somewhere.
6. Use my mail program to attach it to an email.
7. Remove the exported file.

I am annoyed by steps 4./5., and I always forget step 7. -- is there any way to add something like "Send revision by mail" into the menu?

Answer 1

It's actually quite easy, this small .bat file can do it:

...
PAUSE

The ... has to be replaced with the mail program (e.g. C:\Program Files\MyCoolMailProgram\program.exe /newMail /attachment %~1), the file to attach is in %1 (or %~1 to remove the "s).

In TortoiseGit, you can then choose Open with... and the script. TortoiseGit creates the file revision as a temporary file somewhere and gives the temporary file's path to your script (%1), et voila. :-)

The PAUSE at the end of the script makes sure that the script is open until you press a key inside the cmd window -- I do not know, when TortoiseGit removes the temporary file, so we keep the script open.