whadido

whadido is a command line tool to recover and show recent operations in a local git repository.

Useful when you wonder "what did i do" in a shiny Monday morning.

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Requirements

• Linux or Mac (may work in other unices too. not in Windows or WSL)
• git binary in $PATH
• node.js v8.0 or newer (GYP is not required)

Install

$ npm install -g whadido

# OR

$ yarn global add whadido

Usage

Running whadido with no parameters in a repository prints recent 20 recovered operations:

$ whadido

List of all parameters:

$ whadido --help

usage: whadido [-h] [-v] [-r REPO_PATH] [-n NUM_OF_OPERATIONS] [--verbose]
               [--dump]

Analyze and show history of local git repo.

Optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit.
  -v, --version         Show program's version number and exit.
  -r REPO_PATH, --repo REPO_PATH
                        Path in git repository or its worktree.
                        Defaults to $PWD
  -n NUM_OF_OPERATIONS, --num NUM_OF_OPERATIONS
                        The number of (recent) git operations to display.
                        Defaults to 20
  --verbose             Enable verbose log. Most for development use.
  --dump                Dump refs and reflogs to a timestamp-named JSON file
                        in PWD. Most for development use.

How does it work?

whadido recovers local operation history from often-mysterious reflogs (git reflog).

Development

Feel free to file an issue :)

See docs/files.md for code structure, and docs/parser.md for analyze heuristics.

License

MIT