Create A Simple Git Timesheet
At the end of each day, I find myself crawling through the git logs to record my activities for the day on our timesheet software. It eventually occurred to me that with a few super simple arguments passed to the git log command, I could have a basic output of my timesheet for that day.
Step 1. Edit Your bash_profile file:
$ subl ~/.bash_profileStep 2. Add an alias to your profile:
git log --oneline --author="`git config --get user.name`" --since='6am'Step 3. Save your profile
Step 4. Check your daily timesheet:
david:~/Projects/octopress❮source❯$ timesheet
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Cheers!
David
Written by David Stump
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Cool, I like this. I didn't know about --since. I've also been trying to learn about my productivity through git. I wrote git-spark to plot my commit history over time on the command line. Now I want to add a --since option.
Just adding some optional argument:
timesheet () {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
SINCE="8am"
else
SINCE=$1
fi
git log --oneline --author="`git config --get user.name`" --since=$SINCE
}
@kablamo Try to use gitstats
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