git-today

A tool to recap your daily git work.

Motivation

In my optinion, projects which solve a problem firstly to use, are the most valueable. So the idea for this project was born while I was writing my bachelor thesis: working all day in a project which gets bigger and bigger, the commits are piling up (big fan of commiting small chunks when working with LaTeX) and at the end of the day I had no idea how much I worked and how. Pretty early in the process I commited to "mark" my commits with little tags inside the message (not like git tag) to get a quick overview what this commit is about.

So I said to myself, why not analyze the commit history of today and print nice little statistics.

Installation

Currently no binaries are provided yet, so the only way is to install it with cargo directly from the repository url#

# Use the GitHub version
cargo install --git https://github.com/bitSheriff/git-today

# Use my selfhosted version
cargo install --git https://code.bitsheriff.dev/bitSheriff/git-today

Usage

A tool to recap your daily git work

Usage: git-today [OPTIONS] [path]

Arguments:
  [path]  Path to the git repository [default: .]

Options:
  -v, --version  Print version information
      --full     Print commit messages
  -h, --help     Print help

To use this tool with git today, you can create a git alias.

Set the alias in the current repository:

git config alias.today "!git-today"

Set the alias globally for your user:

git config --global alias.today "!git-today"