git-standup builds a short report of recent Git activity. Its purpose is straightforward: help developers remember what they worked on before a daily standup, a project update or a handover.
The utility searches a repository or a collection of repositories and gathers commits for a chosen period. Instead of manually inspecting each project, a developer can produce one summary organised around the recorded work. Its filtering controls are especially useful for people who contribute to more than one repository.
For a standup report, the practical problem is often remembering small contributions spread across several repositories. The tool draws on commit messages already written during development, so the summary remains traceable to Git history rather than relying on manually maintained diary entries.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Reports commits made during the previous working day or another selected date range.
- Filters results by Git author to separate an individual developer’s activity from team-wide commits.
- Supports filtering by branch, including remote-tracking branches when requested.
- Can recursively search a directory tree for additional Git repositories.
- Lets users control recursion depth and whether symbolic links are followed.
- Can fetch recent commits before constructing the report.
- Includes optional diff statistics for matching commits to show the scale of recorded changes.
- Offers a choice of relative or explicit commit-date formats.
- Can distinguish signed commits and select author dates instead of committer dates.
- Writes reports to a file for use in notes or other reporting workflows.
Website: github.com/nilbuild/git-standup
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Developer: Kamran Ahmed
License: MIT License
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