git-who extends Git authorship analysis beyond individual files. While git blame identifies who last changed particular lines, git-who walks repository history to summarise responsibility for whole directories, components and revisions.
That wider view is useful when identifying maintainers, finding experts for a subsystem or understanding how ownership is distributed through a larger codebase. It also provides historical perspectives on contributions instead of a single point-in-time blame report.
Authorship is not the same as formal responsibility for a component, but historical editing patterns can provide useful starting points when routing questions or reviewing a change. The distinction between line ownership, frequency of edits and recent activity is why git-who offers several ranking and filtering methods. For broad repository queries this saves having to combine blame reports from many unrelated files, while still allowing an investigation to be narrowed to the component in question.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Calculates contribution summaries for an entire repository, selected paths, branches and revision ranges.
- Displays directory and file trees annotated with their most significant contributors.
- Offers timeline-style views of historical commit activity.
- Ranks contributors using different measures, including commits, files modified and lines changed.
- Can order results according to first edit, last edit and other historical criteria.
- Filters analysis by author, excluded author, path, date and Git pathspec.
- Integrates as a Git subcommand so it can be invoked with familiar Git workflows.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who
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Developer: Sinclair Target
License: MIT License
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