visionmedia/git-extras
Git Extras
git-extras is a collection of command line extensions for Git that provide utilities for managing repositories, analyzing commit history, and automating version control workflows. The suite includes tools for generating automated changelogs from commit history and utilities for identifying and cleaning up merged or stale branches.
The project provides a set of analysis tools to quantify project contributions by calculating commit percentages and author metrics. It further includes capabilities for summarizing repository metadata and state to optimize routine inspections.
The toolset is implemented as a series of portable shell scripts that wrap existing Git commands to extract and format repository data.
Features
- Git Command Line Extensions - Extends Git with additional commands for managing repositories, analyzing history, and automating workflows.
- Git Repository Analyzers - Measures contributor effort and summarizes project metadata through analysis of Git commit logs.
- Analysis Utilities - Adds high-level summary and analysis tools to speed up routine repository inspections.
- Branch Management Utilities - Identifies and removes merged or unmerged branches to maintain a clean project workspace.
- Repository Maintenance - Cleans up stale branches and manages repository state to keep the workspace organized.
- Repository Metadata - Generates high-level overviews of current repository status and metadata for quick analysis.
- Release Changelog Generators - Extracts commit history to automatically build comprehensive lists of changes for release notes.
- Contributor Metrics - Calculates commit percentages and author metrics to quantify the effort contributed by project members.
- Project Contribution Analysis - Quantifies effort contributed by project members by calculating commit percentages and author metrics.
- Git Tools - Additional utilities for repository management and reporting.
