Git-Stats – A local GitHub-like contributions calendar

https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats

by drtse4 • 11 years ago

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colomon3• 11 years ago

I'm only half-awake, so maybe I'm missing something obvious. Why is the README talking about a git commit hook? Why not just take the data from the log?

michaelmior• 11 years ago

It seems like for performance reasons, git-stats wants to update the calendar on commit instead of generating it on the fly. git-cal[0] just does this on the fly and works reasonably fast for me. The UI looks very comparable.

[0] https://github.com/k4rthik/git-cal

colomon3• 11 years ago

Hmm, just installed git-cal and it certainly is adequately fast on my main work repo. But it seems to just be for the current branch? (That seems sensible enough, but also makes it somewhat less useful.)

drtse4• 11 years ago

Looks like that he parses the log with the hook and then stores the json output in ~/.git-stats (git-stats --record), my guess is that he then generates the calendar only from that data so that he doesn't have to parse the whole history all over again. I'm a bit worried about the size of that file though...

rplnt• 11 years ago

If you were fully awake you'd notice it also talks about executing a remote file that you have no control over on every git commit you run.

peterjmag• 11 years ago

Cool! I was actually just looking for a tool like this a couple of weeks ago. I stumbled across git-cal[1], which only works on one repository at a time, but it doesn't require you to import your commits first like this one does[2].

Here's my output from both tools, generated from the repo I spend most of my time in at work: http://i.imgur.com/chrmeP6.png.

[1] https://github.com/k4rthik/git-cal

[2] https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats#importing-and-delet...

EDIT: Just noticed that the "contributions" counts differ.

    peterjmag@peters-imac ~/checkouts/rg/community (git::master) 
    $ git rev-list HEAD --author="Peter" --since="1 year ago" --count
    1205

But git-stats shows 1292. What does it count as a contribution?

Amorymeltzer• 11 years ago

Does one exclude merge commits while the other includes them?

k4rthik2• 11 years ago

Yes, git-cal excludes merge commits.

qznc• 11 years ago

Why do people care about this? I never understood why Github features things like "longest commit streak" so prominently.

kaolinite• 11 years ago

I like the commit streak statistic because, when I attempt to maintain a long streak, I get into the habit of committing something - even something small - once a day. Once I've made even the slightest change, I'm more likely to keep working. I find that it's a good motivator.

danadam• 11 years ago

"Don't break the chain!" http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...

erikano• 11 years ago

I love the don't break the chain thing but just wanted to point out that Jerry Seinfeld said in an AMA on Reddit that he did not invent that program http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld_...

gknoy• 11 years ago

I would love it if, for things like my work repo, I could count "Don't break the chain of weekday commits" -- I would prefer not to be penalized for not working on the weekend. :)

vhost-• 11 years ago

It's totally superficial, but I find it fun. It's something to check once in a while and be like "hey, I have a dark green box. I wonder how many times I committed that day."

When I left my previous job, they revoked my Github access and I lost 3k commits on the calendar and it was a bummer. I wasn't throwing a fit or anything. I just had to start over :).

josteink• 11 years ago

Doesn't work for me on Windows. Keep getting a blank calendar: That is it has dates and all but no commits.

KhalPanda• 11 years ago

I'm getting the same on Ubuntu.

jayrhynas2• 11 years ago

You have to import your commits first: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats#importing-and-delet...

klapinat0r2• 11 years ago

Still doesn't work (for me, osx)

  user@host ~/tmp # npm install -g git-stats
  /usr/local/bin/git-stats -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-stats/bin/git-stats
  git-stats@1.1.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-stats                                                                                                                                                       ├── ul@1.1.0
  ├── ansi-parser@1.4.0                                                                                                                                                                                       ├── cli-box@2.1.1 (ansi-parser@1.3.0)
  ├── moment@2.9.0                                                                                                                                                                                            ├── git-stats-colors@1.0.0 (couleurs@3.0.0)
  └── bug-killer@1.0.0 (couleurs@1.1.0)                                                                                                                                                                       user@host ~/tmp # npm install -g git-stats-importer                                                                                                                                                         /usr/local/bin/git-stats-importer -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-stats-importer/bin/git-stats-importer
  git-stats-importer@1.3.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/git-stats-importer                                                                                                                                     ├── gry@1.0.0
  ├── async@0.9.0                                                                                                                                                                                             ├── oargv@1.2.0 (ul@1.1.0)
  ├── bug-killer@1.0.0 (couleurs@1.1.0)                                                                                                                                                                       └── git-stats@1.1.0 (ul@1.1.0, ansi-parser@1.4.0, git-stats-colors@1.0.0, cli-box@2.1.1, moment@2.9.0)
  user@host ~/tmp # git clone https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats
  Cloning into 'git-stats'...                                                                                                                                                                                 remote: Counting objects: 414, done.
  remote: Total 414 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)                                                                                                                                                             Receiving objects: 100% (414/414), 47.08 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (189/189), done.                                                                                                                                                                     Checking connectivity... done.
  user@host ~/tmp : cd git-stats
  user@host ~/tmp/git-stats # git-stats-importer
  info  Done.
  user@host ~/tmp/git-stats # git stats
  ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
  ║   Mar      Apr      May      Jun      Jul      Aug      Sep      Oct      Nov      Dec      Jan      Feb       ║
  ║Sun   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ║
  ║Mon   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ║
  ║Tue   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■   ║
  ║Wed   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■   ║
  ║Thu   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■   ║
  ║Fri   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■   ║
  ║Sat   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■   ║
  ║--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ║
  ║Contributions in the last year: 0 | Longest Streak: 0 days | Current Streak: 0 days | Max a day: 0              ║
  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
  user@host ~/tmp/git-stats # cat $HOME/.git-stats
  {}

euphemize• 11 years ago

Awesome stuff, I really like this for the following reason:

While I do push data to github for various projects, I actually take part in 3-4 active, self-hosted redmine projects that would never be counted in the github graph. Same for a seldom-updated bitbucket project.

cubitesystems• 11 years ago

That's not what I need.

I need download stats, checkout stats, per page view stats and per file view stats.

olalonde• 11 years ago

This tool is designed to work with Git, not Github. The stats you are referring to would need to be made available by Github.

halosghost4• 11 years ago

Actually, if you look at the project more closely, it does support github. In fact, there's even a derivative project that directly interacts with github. However, I think the point of this poster's comment was that this project's scope doens't include ey's needs, not that it doesn't interface with a particular service (I, of course, could be wrong in that interpretation).

arxpoetica• 11 years ago

Funny. I was annoyed it was all private so I made mine public 11 days ago. Nice coincidence. https://github.com/arxpoetica/commits

Cthulhu_• 11 years ago

Name might be a bit confusing with the Gitstats project (http://gitstats.sourceforge.net/)

omouse• 11 years ago

They should connect and then integrate the calendar into gitstats, it looks really useful and would be awesome to put into the gitstats report.

spidermanto• 11 years ago

Good article, I like it.

halosghost4• 11 years ago

I wish only that it weren't node…

halosghost4• 11 years ago

I find it funny that I was down-voted so for this. I haven't maligned the project at all; in fact, I think it's incredibly cool, I'm just not a huge fan of node.

tokenizerrr• 11 years ago

I downvoted you because negative nonconstructive comments may as well not be posted. They provide no tangible benefit to anyone who participates in the discussion.

If you have a compelling reason as to why this project would be better done in another language then it would be prudent to include this reason in your original post. If all you're going off is personal preference then it may be best to keep this to yourself.

aendruk• 11 years ago

There's an R package for producing nice images like this. Example of visualizing Git contributions: https://andrew.kvalhe.im/easy-calendar-heatmaps-for-git/

pedrosanta• 11 years ago

Cool, I always enjoy clever git visualisation tools. While you are immersed in code it's hard to get a good grasp on what are your routines, or on what you've accomplished, and these tools give you a nice picture of that - and I've found them rather useful on retrospective or post-mortem moments.

One of the tools I use now an then is gource:

https://code.google.com/p/gource

It puts you entire log on a neat graph like file structure with the contributors firing out changes to nodes as time goes by.

Git-Stats – A local GitHub-like contributions calendar

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