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Git Clients

Commitizen – create well-structured Git commit messages

May 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Commitizen is a command line utility that helps project contributors create well-structured Git commit messages.

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cz-git – Commitizen adapter and command-line tool

May 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cz-git is a Commitizen adapter and command-line tool for composing structured Git commit messages.

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git-secrets – prevent adding secrets into git repositories

May 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-secrets is a CLI utility that helps avoid committing passwords, access keys, and other sensitive credentials to Git repositories.

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git-heatmap – heatmap of local Git commit activity

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-heatmap creates a customisable visual calendar of local Git commit activity, helping developers inspect how activity varies over time.

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git-history – analyse structured data history with SQLite

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-history loads the history of JSON, CSV, and TSV files into SQLite so changes to individual records can be analysed with SQL queries.

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Stan – Haskell STatic ANalyser

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Stan uses GHC-generated HIE files to inspect source code, identify code that could be improved, and offer guidance.

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git-who – repository-wide Git authorship analysis

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-who analyses repository authorship across branches, directories, and revisions, with contribution rankings, history views, and filters.

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Onefetch – terminal overview of Git repository information

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Onefetch displays Git repository details, code statistics, contributor information, and language breakdowns in a configurable terminal view.

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Weeder – perform whole-program dead-code analysis

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Weeder is a command-line utility for Haskell that performs whole-program dead-code analysis.

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Git Clients

BFG Repo-Cleaner – remove unwanted data from Git history

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

BFG Repo-Cleaner removes secrets, unwanted files, and large blobs from Git repository history using a focused bulk-cleanup workflow.

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crash – Linux kernel crash analysis utility

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

crash examines Linux kernel dumps and live systems with backtraces, memory inspection, kernel symbols and extensible analysis commands.

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rr – record-and-replay debugger for Linux

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

rr records Linux program execution for deterministic replay in GDB, with reverse debugging, watchpoints and chaos mode for tricky bugs.

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drgn – programmable debugger

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

drgn is a programmable debugger for inspecting Linux kernels, core dumps and processes using Python scripts and object-aware helpers.

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Git Clients

git-smart – small collection of Git helper commands

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-smart is a small collection of Git helper commands that try to make common repository tasks safer and more informative.

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Git Clients

git-recent – jump between recently used local Git branches

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

git-recent is a command-line utility that helps developers quickly jump between recently used local Git branches.

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Coding

JSLint – JavaScript code quality and coverage tool

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

JSLint can lint JavaScript from the shell or from your own code, generate HTML reports, produce V8 coverage reports for Node.js and npm programs

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Git Clients

git-open – small command-line helper

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-open is a small command-line helper that adds a handy git open command to Git.

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pydoclint – Python docstring linter

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pydoclint is a Python docstring linter intended for developers who want stricter, more reliable docstring validation in Python projects.

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Git Clients

git-when-merged – command-line tool

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-when-merged is a command-line tool that helps you find the merge commit that first brought a specific commit into a branch.

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Git Clients

git-fixup – command-line helper for Git users

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-fixup is a command-line helper for Git users who rely on interactive rebase and autosquash.

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