frecenfile

frecenfile computes frecency scores for files in Git repositories. Frecency combines the frequency and recency of events.

This is useful as a heauristic for finding relevant or trending files when all you have to work with is the commit history.

frecenfile is highly scalabe, producing a sorted output within miliseconds for mid-sized repositories, and processing the entire commit history Linux in under a minute.

📦 Installation

cargo install frecenfile

🚀 Usage

Score every file in the current repo, highest first

frecenfile

Only list paths, omit scores

frecenfile --path-only

Restrict analysis to certain directories

frecenfile --paths src tests

Sort oldest/least-touched files first

frecenfile --ascending

Example output

12.9423   src/lib.rs
 9.3310   src/analyze.rs
 2.7815   README.md