today

View your commit history across multiple directories, ideal for daily standup.

Easily view the work that you have done for the day, or longer, leveraging the power of git tracking one or more repositories. This tool is simple to use and requires no extra setup, it simply utilises an pre-existing workflow that you are already familiar with.

This works best when paired with clear and concise commit messages. A great example of this is conventional commits.

Install

The easiest way to install is through the go command.

go install github.com/jdockerty/today@latest # or tag/ref: @v0.1.X, @HEAD, etc.

Or by downloading a pre-compiled binary on the releases page.

Usage

Simply pass one or more directories that you wish to view the commits for.

today ./ # View the current directory

today work/api work/frontend work/new-important-serivce # You've been very busy

today --since 48h work/api # You missed standup yesterday

today --short work/fun-poc # Only display first line of the commit message

today --author "Jack" projects/backend-api # View commits with author name containing 'Jack'

You can always call today --help or today -h to view the default help at any time.

Flag Options

• --author can be used to change which commits are displayed, based on a particular author.
  • The default is to display all authors.
  • This filter is done using strings.Contains. As such, multiple authors may be displayed depending on the value provided.
  • This allows you to filter for your own or someone else's commits.
• --colour can be used to show a preset colourised output to the terminal. Directories which have no commits are shown in red, whilst others are highlighted in green.
  • The default is no colour.
• --short can be used to display only the first line of a commit.
  • The default is to display the entire commit message.
  • Useful when commit messages are incredibly descriptive, spanning below the fold to explain the intention of a change.
  • This also has a side effect of reducing verbosity.
• --since can be used to modify the time range.
  • The default is 12 hours, given in the format of 12h00m00s.
  • Valid time units must conform to time.ParseDuration.