$ git-stats

Local git statistics including GitHub-like contributions calendars.

I'd be curious to see your calendar with all your commits. Ping me on Twitter (@IonicaBizau). 😄 Until then, here's my calendar:

Contents

• Installation

• Usage

  • Importing and deleting commits
  • Importing all the commits from GitHub and BitBucket
  • What about the GitHub Contributions calendar?

• Documentation

• How to contribute

☁️ Installation

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

# 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.

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

Local git statistics including GitHub-like contributions calendars.

Options:
  -r, --raw              Outputs a dump of the raw JSON data.
  --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.
  -s, --since <date>     Optional start date.
  -u, --until <date>     Optional end date.
  -g, --global-activity  Shows global activity calendar in the current
                         repository.
  -n, --disable-ansi     Forces the tool not to use ANSI styles.
  -l, --light            Enables the light theme.
  -d, --data <path>      Sets a custom data store file.
  -a, --authors          Shows a pie chart with the author related
                         contributions in the current repository.
  -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–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:

# 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!

# 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.

# 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--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.js.

This file should export an object, like below (defaults are listed):

module.exports = {
    // "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
};

Since it's a js file, you can require any other modules there.

Saving the data as HTML and images

git-stats --raw outputs raw JSON format which can be consumed by other tools to generate results such as HTML files or images.

git-stats-html interprets the JSON data and generates an HTML file. Example:

# Install git-stats-html
npm install -g git-stats-html

# Export the data from the last year (generate out.html)
git-stats --raw | git-stats-html -o out.html

# Export data since 2015 (save the results in out.html)
git-stats --since '1 January 2015' --raw | ./bin/git-stats-html -o out.html --big

After we have the HTML file, we can generate an image file using pageres by @sindresorhus:

# Install pageres
npm install -g pageres-cli

# Generate the image from HTML
pageres out.html 775x250

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! 💫

📋 Example

Here is an example how to use this package as library. To install it locally, as library, you can do that using npm:

$ npm i --save git-stats

// 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 file.

📰 Press Highlights

• A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits, The Changelog

😋 How to contribute

Have an idea? Found a bug? See how to contribute.

💰 Donations

Another way to support the development of my open-source modules is to set up a recurring donation, via Patreon. 🚀

PayPal donations are appreciated too! Each dollar helps.

Thanks! ❤️

💫 Where is this library used?

If you are using this library in one of your projects, add it in this list. ✨

• git-stats-fcc-importer (by Yu Zhao)—git-stats importer for FreeCodeCamp users
• git-stats-importer—Imports your commits from a repository into git-stats history.

📜 License

MIT © Ionică Bizău