git-stats/README.md

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![git-stats](http://i.imgur.com/Q7TQYHx.png)

# `$ git-stats` [![Donate now][donate-now]][paypal-donations]

Local git statistics, including a GitHub-like contributions calendars.

I'd be curious to see your calendar with all your commits. Ping me on Twitter ([**@IonicaBizau**](https://twitter.com/IonicaBizau)). :smile: Until then, here's my calendar:

![git-stats](http://i.imgur.com/PpM0i3v.png)

## Contents

 - [Installation](#installation)
 - [Usage](#usage)
   - [Importing and deleting commits](#importing-and-deleting-commits)
   - [Importing all the commits from GitHub and BitBucket](#importing-all-the-commits-from-github-and-bitbucket)
   - [What about the GitHub Contributions calendar?](#what-about-the-github-contributions-calendar)
 - [Documentation](#documentation)
 - [How to contribute](#how-to-contribute)

## Installation

You can install the package globally and use it as command line tool:

```sh
# Install the package globally
npm i -g git-stats
# Initialize git hooks
# This is for tracking the new commits
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats/master/scripts/init-git-post-commit | bash
```

Then, run `git-stats --help` and see what the cli tool can do.

```sh
$ git-stats --help
Usage: git-stats [options]

Options:
  -s, --since <date>     Optional start date.
  -u, --until <date>     Optional end date.
  -n, --no-ansi          Forces the tool not to use ANSI styles.
  -l, --light            Enables the light theme.
  -a, --authors          Shows a pie chart with the author related
                         contributions in the current repository.
  -g, --global-activity  Shows global activity calendar in the current
                         repository.
  -d, --data <path>      Sets a custom data store file.
  -f, --first-day <day>  Sets the first day of the week.
  --record <data>        Records a new commit. Don't use this unless you
                         are a mad scientist. If you are a developer, just
                         use this option as part of the module.
  -h, --help             Displays this help.
  -v, --version          Displays version information.

Examples:
  git-stats # Default behavior (stats in the last year)
  git-stats -l # Light mode
  git-stats -s '1 January 2012' # All the commits from 1 January 2012 to now
  git-stats -s '1 January 2012' -u '31 December 2012' # All the commits from 2012

Your commit history is kept in ~/.git-stats by default. You can create ~/.git-stats-config.json to specify different defaults.

Documentation can be found at https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats
```

## Usage

### Importing and deleting commits
I know it's not nice to start your git commit calendar from scratch. That's why I
created [`git-stats-importer`](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats-importer)–a tool which imports or deletes the commits from selected repositories.

Check it out here: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats-importer

The usage is simple:

```sh
# Install the importer tool
$ npm install -g git-stats-importer

# Go to the repository you want to import
$ cd path/to/my-repository

# Import the commits
$ git-stats-importer

# ...or delete them if that's a dummy repository
$ git-stats-importer --delete
```

### Importing all the commits from GitHub and BitBucket
Yes, that's also possible. I [built a tool which downloads and then imports all the commits you have pushed to GitHub and BitBucket](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/repository-downloader)!

```sh
# Download the repository downloader
$ git clone https://github.com/IonicaBizau/repository-downloader.git

# Go to repository downloader
$ cd repository-downloader

# Install the dependencies
$ npm install

# Start downloading and importing
$ ./start
```
### What about the GitHub Contributions calendar?
If you want to visualize the calendars that appear on GitHub profiles, you can do that using [`ghcal`](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/ghcal).

```sh
# Install ghcal
$ npm install -g ghcal

# Check out @alysonla's contributions
$ ghcal -u alysonla
```

For more detailed documentation, check out the repository: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/ghcal.

If want to get even more GitHub stats in your terminal, you may want to try [`github-stats`](https://github.com/Ioni56caBizau/github-stats)--this is like `git-stats` but with data taken from GitHub.

## Using the configuration file
You can tweak the   git-stats behavior using a configuration file in your home directory: `~/.git-stats-config.json`.

This file will contain a JSON object like below (in this example comments are added to explain what's going on, but you should not include them since the JSON format doesn't support such comments). Defaults are listed.

```js
{
    // "DARK", "LIGHT" or an object interpreted by IonicaBizau/node-git-stats-colors
    "theme": "DARK"

    // The file where the commit hashes will be stored
  , "path": "~/.git-stats"

    // First day of the week
  , first_day: "Sun"

    // This defaults to *one year ago*
    // It can be any parsable date
  , since: undefined

    // This defaults to *now*
    // It can be any parsable date
  , until: undefined

    // Don't show authors by default
    // If true, this will enable the authors pie
  , authors: false

    // No global activity by default
    // If true, this will enable the global activity calendar in the current project
  , global_activity: false
}
```

## Cross-platform compatibility

`git-stats` is working fine in terminal emulators supporting ANSI styles. It should work fine on Linux and OS X.

If you run `git-stats` to display graph on Windows, please use a terminal that can properly display ANSI colors.
Cygwin Terminal is known to work, while Windows Command Prompt and Git Bash do not. Improvements are more than welcome! :dizzy:

## Example

Here is an example how to use this package as library.

```js
// Dependencies
var GitStats = require("git-stats");

// Create the GitStats instance
var g1 = new GitStats();

// Display the ansi calendar
g1.ansiCalendar({
    theme: "DARK"
}, function (err, data) {
    console.log(err || data);
});

```

## Documentation

For full API reference, see the [DOCUMENTATION.md][docs] file.

## How to contribute
Have an idea? Found a bug? See [how to contribute][contributing].

## License
[KINDLY][license] © [Ionică Bizău][website]–The [LICENSE](/LICENSE) file contains
a copy of the license.

[license]: http://ionicabizau.github.io/kindly-license/?author=Ionic%C4%83%20Biz%C4%83u%20%3Cbizauionica@gmail.com%3E&year=2015
[contributing]: /CONTRIBUTING.md
[website]: http://ionicabizau.net
[docs]: /DOCUMENTATION.md
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