Funnily enough I do something very close to this with the RFC database at rfc-editor.org, here's the script that I have put in my `cron`: pushd ~/data/rfc

Funnily enough I do something very close to this with the RFC database at rfc-editor.org, here's the script that I have put in my `cron`: pushd ~/data/rfc # this is a GIT repo rsync -avzuh --delete --progress --exclude=.git ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs-text-only ~/data/rfc/text-only/ rsync -avzuh --delete --progress --exclude=.git ftp.rfc-editor.org::refs ~/data/rfc/refs rsync -avzuh --delete --progress --exclude=.git ftp.rfc-editor.org::rfcs-pdf-only ~/data/rfc/pdf-only/ git add . git commit -m "update $(date '+%Y-%m-%d')" git reflog expire --expire=now --all git gc --prune=now --aggressive git push origin master popd Though I admit using GitHub's servers for this is more clever than me using one of my home servers. Still, I lean more to self-hosting. @simonw Will take a look at `git-history`, looks intriguing!