Coded4: Time-based Statistics for Git/Hg Repos

2011-12-24 16:23

As the ubiquitous spirit of ~~laziness~~ relaxation permeates the holiday season, a will to do any serious and productive coding seems appallingly low. Instead of fighting it, I went along and tried to write something just for pure fun.

And guess what: it worked pretty well. Well enough, in fact, that the result seems to be worthy of public exposure – which I’m hereby doing. Behold the coded4 project:

$ git clone git@github.com:jquery/jquery
$ coded4 jquery

name commits time
-------------------------------------------
John Resig 1211 5d 09:11:59
jeresig 503 2d 07:50:02
Jörn Zaefferer 309 1d 09:05:53
Brandon Aaron 247 1d 01:34:29
Dave Methvin 235 22:17:27
jaubourg 221 22:22:31
timmywil 221 23:00:56
Ariel Flesler 200 22:10:46
...

What exactly is this thing? It’s a “time sheet” for the marvelous jQuery project, reconstructed from commit timestamps in its Git repository. coded4 created this result by analyzing repo’s history, grouping changesets by contributors, and running some heuristics to approximate timespans of their coding sessions.

And of course, this can be done for any Git (or Hg) repository. Pretty neat for a mere *pops up shell and types coded4 .* 3 hours of casual coding, eh?

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