git-follow-up

git-follow-up aims at keeping track of contributions made on multiple git repositories described in a yaml configuration file. Those repositories can be hosted on any platform, and accessed through ssh, https, with or without an access token.

Each git project is synced concurrently as a bare repository locally, in ~/.git-follow-up/git/ directory.

Then the commits list can be queried and filtered with the provided flags.

Why this project?

I've been working in organizations where there are a lot of git repos (microservices, packaging, config, ...) and I wasn't fully satisfied with the git platform web ui. My need was simply to check what happened on all repos, so as to quickly prepare a stand-up meeting, or keep track of the overall progress. Therefore, I chose to develop my own tool in golang, using the occasion to learn this language ;)

Installation

If you have go already installed, you can run :

go get github.com/ttauveron/git-follow-up

You can also download the binary matching your OS (https://github.com/ttauveron/git-follow-up/releases) and copy it, for example, in /usr/local/bin (don't forget to chmod +x the binary).

Configuration

The config.yaml, that should be located by default in the ~/.git-follow-up/ directory, references all the repositories that need to be tracked.

Here is an example of that config file describing the repositories :

repositories:
  - name: go-git
    url: [email protected]:src-d/go-git.git
    authentication:
      type: ssh
      auth_file: /home/ttauveron/.ssh/id_rsa
    labels:
      - go
      - git
      
  - name: cobra
    url: https://github.com/spf13/cobra.git
    authentication:
      type: access_token
      auth_file: /home/ttauveron/.git-follow-up/gh_access_token
    labels:
      - go
      
  - name: viper
    url: https://github.com/spf13/viper

Description of the yaml fields

Field name	Description
name	the name given to the project
url	url of the git repo (ssh, https)
authentication	The types available are ssh and access_token. The auth_file parameter specifies the key to be used to authenticate to the git hosting platform you're using. For a ssh authentication, we are pointing to a ssh private key file and for a https authentication, we are pointing to a file containing the access token provided by the git hosting platform.
labels	Labels add filtering options to repositories, allowing to query a subset of the defined repositories

Usage

First, we need to sync the repositories defined in the config file locally.

(Note : for large repos, this step may initially take some time...)

git-follow-up update 

Then we can query the local repositories for commits

git-follow-up commits --from 2019-01-10 --author ttau --label go --label git

The commit command can take multiple flags :

Flags	Description
--from	Filters commit by date Default value : "wtd" (week to date) Possible values : - today - yesterday - wtd - mtd - ytd - yyyy-MM-dd
--author	Filters commit by author This flag can be specified multiple times for targeting multiple authors
--display	Commit fields to be displayed (all by default) This flag can be specified multiple times for displaying multiple fields Possible values : - author - date - hash - message - repo
--label	Filters by project labels This flag can be specified multiple times to target multiple labels
--update	Runs the update command before querying the repos

For example, we can list contributors on a time range :

git-follow-up commits --from ytd --display author | sort | uniq

Bash completion

To activate bash completion for git-follow-up, run the following command :

source <(git-follow-up completion)

Alternatively, add this command to your ~/.bashrc file to persist the bash completion.