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+<h2><img valign="center" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ejwa/gitinspector/master/gitinspector/html/gitinspector_piclet.png" /> About Gitinspector</h2>
+<img style="float:right;" src="https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/images/html_example_thumbnail.jpg" />
+Gitinspector is a statistical analysis tool for git repositories. The defaut analysis shows general statistics per author, which can be complemented with a timeline analysis that shows the workload and activity of each author. Under normal operation, it filters the results to only show statistics about a number of given extensions and by default only includes source files in the statistical analysis.
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+This tool was originally written to help fetch repository statistics from student projects in the course Object-oriented Programming Project (TDA367/DIT211) at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University.
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+Today, gitinspector is used as a grading aid by universities worldwide.
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+Please refer to the [[FAQ]] for help on the most common questions.
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+### Some of the features
+  * Shows cumulative work by each author in the history.
+  * Filters results by extension (default: java,c,cc,cpp,h,hh,hpp,py,glsl,rb,js,sql).
+  * Can display a statistical timeline analysis.
+  * Scans for all filetypes (by extension) found in the repository.
+  * Multi-threaded; uses multiple instances of git to speed up analysis when possible.
+  * Supports HTML, XML and plain text output (console).
+  * Can report violations of different code metrics.
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+### Example outputs
+Below are some example outputs for a number of famous open source projects. All the statistics were generated using the *"-HTlr"* flags.
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+| Project name |||||
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+| Django | [HTML](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/django_output.html) | [HTML Embedded](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/django_output.emb.html) | [Plain Text](https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/django_output.txt) | [XML](https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/django_output.xml) |
+| JQuery | [HTML](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/jquery_output.html) | [HTML Embedded](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/jquery_output.emb.html) | [Plain Text](https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/jquery_output.txt) | [XML](https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/jquery_output.xml) |
+| Pango | [HTML](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/pango_output.html) | [HTML Embedded](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/pango_output.emb.html) | [Plain Text](https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/pango_output.txt) | [XML](https://raw.github.com/wiki/ejwa/gitinspector/examples/pango_output.xml) |
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+### The Team
+  * Adam Waldenberg, Lead maintainer and Swedish translation
+  * Bill Wang, Chinese translation
+  * Christian Kastner, Debian package maintainer
+  * Jiwon Kim, Korean translation
+  * Kamila Chyla, Polish translation
+  * Luca Motta, Italian translation
+  * Philipp Nowak, German translation
+  * Sergei Lomakov, Russian translation
+  * Yannick Moy, French translation
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+*We need translations for gitinspector!* If you are a gitinspector user, feel willing to help and have good language skills in any unsupported language we urge you to contact us. We also happily accept code patches. Please refer to [[Contributing]] for more information on how to contribute to the project.
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+### License
+gitinspector is licensed under the *GNU GPL v3*. The gitinspector logo is partly based on the git logo; based on the work of Jason Long. The logo is licensed under the *Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License*.
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