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https://github.com/hpjansson/fornalder
Visualize long-term trends in collections of Git repositories.
https://github.com/hpjansson/fornalder
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Visualize long-term trends in collections of Git repositories.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/hpjansson/fornalder
- Owner: hpjansson
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2020-12-15T22:51:03.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-12-25T21:59:07.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-01T16:53:35.078Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: analysis, community, community-health, developers, git, history, metrics-visualization, plots, statistics
- Language: Rust
- Homepage:
- Size: 77.1 KB
- Stars: 96
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 10
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: COPYING
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README
# Fornalder
Fornalder ("Bygone Age") is a small utility that can be used to ingest
commit data from collections of git repositories and visualize it in
various ways.
It was used to generate the graphs in [this blog post](https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/). It's made to work with data going back a long time (a decade or two); with shorter time spans the output will probably look quite bad.
## Building
[Clone](https://github.com/git-guides/git-clone) the project repository and make sure you have the Rust prerequisites installed, then:
```sh
$ cargo build
```
## Using
You need a fairly recent version of Gnuplot to generate plots. Make sure
it is installed.
Clone the repositories of interest to a local directory, then ingest them.
This can be run multiple times to add to or update the database:
```sh
$ target/debug/fornalder --meta projects/project-meta.json \
ingest db.sqlite repo-1.git repo-2.git ...
```
When the database has been created, generate one or more plots, e.g:
```sh
$ target/debug/fornalder --meta projects/project-meta.json \
plot db.sqlite \
--cohort firstyear \
--interval year \
--unit authors \
graph.png
```
If something looks odd in the result, you can also explore the database directly.
```sh
$ sqlite3 db.sqlite
sqlite> .tables
authors raw_commits
sqlite> .schema authors
CREATE TABLE authors(
author_name TEXT,
first_time,
first_year,
last_time,
last_year,
active_time,
n_commits,
n_changes
);
sqlite> SELECT author_name, first_year FROM authors ORDER BY first_year;
[...]
```
Guide to arguments:
```
--meta
Optional. Project metadata to use. See projects/ for examples.
--cohort < domain | firstyear | prefix | repo | suffix >
Optional. How to split the data into cohorts.
--interval < year | month >
Optional. Time interval of each histogram bin.
--unit < authors | changes | commits >
Optional. What's being measured -- active authors, number of lines
changed, or commit count.
--from year
Optional. First year to plot.
--to year
Optional. Last year to plot.
```
## Git cloning tips
We support ingestion from both bare and non-bare repositories:
git clone https://git.example.com
git clone --bare https://git.example.com
Another option that can massively reduce data transfer is `--filter=blob:none`, which will only clone commit metadata, not the files themselves.
git clone --bare --filter=blob:none https://git.example.com
Note that this is not supported by all git servers (cloning may fail). Using this mode also prevents the use of the `--unit changes` option (counting the number of changed lines), or in general inspecting `--stat` output from the commit database.