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MixedNo clear lean
15 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 4 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast on large repositories
From 1 comment
This is fantastic! I love it. Pretty quick too... For a rails codebase that is ~18 years old, has 1695 committers and more than 220,000 commits: ``` time git who ... real…
dcchambers on HN
Useful, nice CLI tool
From 3 comments
Lovely tool. Thanks for the release! I had some fun with it before calling it a day. Here is my personal wishlist after a short test-drive. - Blame-based stats. While it is nice…
m000 on HNI love TUI tools but I'm not too familiar with Golang, now I am thinking I should start looking into using go for TUIs this is a great tool!
numbers on HNI love CLI tools, plus it is open source!
eddiejaoude on HN
Objections
Blame is about the commit, not the author
From 2 comments
By the way, git blaming is really misunderstood by a lot of people; its NOT about who did it, its about which commit is to blame -- that's different.
lionkor on HNI don't think the comparison to git blame is needed/warranted. While the 'blame' in git blame suggests the tool is about identifying authors its main purpose is to identify…
account42 on HN
Build requires Ruby and rake, not just Go
From 1 comment
Followed the link, and the README said: > This requires that you have Go, Ruby, and the rake Ruby gem installed. That doesn't cut it for me. git - once built - depends on C…
einpoklum on HN
Attribution can mislead, e.g. squashed or reformatted commits
From 1 comment
One thing to note, maybe particularly with reference to the “who wrote vim” analysis⁰, is that depending on workflow this can attribute more to internal contributors than you…
dspillett on HN
Requests
Pattern-based file inclusion and exclusion
From 2 comments
Lovely tool. Thanks for the release! I had some fun with it before calling it a day. Here is my personal wishlist after a short test-drive. - Blame-based stats. While it is nice…
m000 on HNThis is great. I do this sort of git-blame accounting to track how much code is written by AI versus humans in each release of my app. My "blame script" has been slowing down as…
anotherpaulg on HN
Blame-based ownership stats for trees
From 1 comment
Lovely tool. Thanks for the release! I had some fun with it before calling it a day. Here is my personal wishlist after a short test-drive. - Blame-based stats. While it is nice…
m000 on HN
Configuration file support
From 1 comment
Lovely tool. Thanks for the release! I had some fun with it before calling it a day. Here is my personal wishlist after a short test-drive. - Blame-based stats. While it is nice…
m000 on HN
Homebrew release
From 1 comment
I would love to see this get a brew release.
kelseydh on HN
Questions
How to show more than the top ten rows
From 1 comment
Cool, but how do I increase the number of rows? Is it always just the top ten?
natemwilson on HN
Why Ruby is needed when the code is mostly Go
From 1 comment
This looks like an almost pure Golang program, but still has a Ruby dependency. Is there a component/library that Ruby provides, that Go doesn't have? Or some other logic going on?
unquietwiki on HN
Alternatives named
git shortlog
From 2 comments
For a low-tech version of this, I have long had an alias (which I call "nerdwars") to "git shortlog -ns --no-merges" which just gives the number of commits by contributor from…
seanhunter on HNI don't think the comparison to git blame is needed/warranted. While the 'blame' in git blame suggests the tool is about identifying authors its main purpose is to identify…
account42 on HN
git-blameall
From 1 comment
I've been carrying around a copy of "git blameall" for years - looks like https://github.com/gnddev/git-blameall is the same one - that basically does this, but keeps it all…
eichin on HN
git-praise
From 1 comment
Alternatively git praise https://github.com/ansman/git-praise
lelandfe on HN
tj/git-extras git summary
From 1 comment
I've been using `git summary` from tj/git-extras for a while. It seems to do a similar job.
syhol on HN
MergeStat
From 1 comment
This is such a cool tool. It's a better approach to solving many of the questions I built MergeStat to answer (https://github.com/mergestat/mergestat-lite). It's been some time,…
patrickdevivo on HN