Comment by mattrighetti

13 hours ago

I have a summary alias that kind of does similar things

  # summary: print a helpful summary of some typical metrics
  summary = "!f() { \
    printf \"Summary of this branch...\n\"; \
    printf \"%s\n\" $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); \
    printf \"%s first commit timestamp\n\" $(git log --date-order --format=%cI | tail -1); \
    printf \"%s latest commit timestamp\n\" $(git log -1 --date-order --format=%cI); \
    printf \"%d commit count\n\" $(git rev-list --count HEAD); \
    printf \"%d date count\n\" $(git log --format=oneline --format=\"%ad\" --date=format:\"%Y-%m-%d\" | awk '{a[$0]=1}END{for(i in a){n++;} print n}'); \
    printf \"%d tag count\n\" $(git tag | wc -l); \
    printf \"%d author count\n\" $(git log --format=oneline --format=\"%aE\" | awk '{a[$0]=1}END{for(i in a){n++;} print n}'); \
    printf \"%d committer count\n\" $(git log --format=oneline --format=\"%cE\" | awk '{a[$0]=1}END{for(i in a){n++;} print n}'); \
    printf \"%d local branch count\n\" $(git branch | grep -v \" -> \" | wc -l); \
    printf \"%d remote branch count\n\" $(git branch -r | grep -v \" -> \" | wc -l); \
    printf \"\nSummary of this directory...\n\"; \
    printf \"%s\n\" $(pwd); \
    printf \"%d file count via git ls-files\n\" $(git ls-files | wc -l); \
    printf \"%d file count via find command\n\" $(find . | wc -l); \
    printf \"%d disk usage\n\" $(du -s | awk '{print $1}'); \
    printf \"\nMost-active authors, with commit count and %%...\n\"; git log-of-count-and-email | head -7; \
    printf \"\nMost-active dates, with commit count and %%...\n\"; git log-of-count-and-day | head -7; \
    printf \"\nMost-active files, with churn count\n\"; git churn | head -7; \
  }; f"

EDIT: props to https://github.com/GitAlias/gitalias

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duskdozer  13 hours ago

Curious - why write it as a function in presumably .gitconfig and not just a git-summary script in your path? Just seems like a lot of extra escapes and quotes and stuff

  • mattrighetti  13 hours ago

    It's a very old config that I copied from someone many years ago, agree that it's a bit hard to parse visually.

  • Cthulhu_  11 hours ago

    Not the poster, but one theory: so you only need to copy one file. Portability.

    • mr_mitm  11 hours ago

      Looks like the above assumes a POSIX shell, so one could argue a dedicated script would actually be more portable.

not_kurt_godel  1 hour ago

I was going to say, the OP's assertion that "they" are typing all these commands out by hand each time without an alias is just one of many tells that this post is AI slop. Nobody that proficient with shell commands should be typing any of those by hand more than once or twice without aliasing for reuse.