In admiration of the Baobab, the African tree of life: the baobab scripts visualize life in a git repository as a sunburst-style hot-cold map, similar to Disk Usage Analyzer.
➜ git clone https://github.com/weliveindetail/git-baobab.git /path/to/git-baobab
➜ ll /path/to/git-baobab/git-baobab*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user staff 19K Jul 2 13:11 git-baobab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user staff 20K Jul 2 14:14 git-baobab-me
They can run standalone or as a dedicated sub-command within git. For that just copy or symlink them somewhere in your PATH.
Shows accumulated changes in a git repository between current HEAD and the given since revision.
➜ ln -s /path/to/git-baobab/git-baobab /usr/local/bin/git-baobab
➜ git baobab -h
usage: git-baobab-me [...] since
Shows accumulated changes in a git repository for the given author until the current HEAD revision. Leaf nodes link to the list of individual commits on GitHub. It requires author to be given by their e-mail address and the remote origin to point to a GitHub repository.
➜ ln -s /path/to/git-baobab/git-baobab-me /usr/local/bin/git-baobab-me
➜ git baobab-me -h
usage: git-baobab-me [...] author
➜ git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
➜ cd llvm-project
➜ git log -1 --oneline 2cf681a11aea
2cf681a11ae Creating release_90 branch off revision 366426
➜ git checkout 2cf681a11aea
➜ git merge-base HEAD origin/release/8.x
7b5565418f4d6e113ba805dad40d471d23bca6f6
➜ git baobab 7b5565418f4d --cpp -exclude "/(test|unittest|unittests)/"
Commits 7b5565418f4d..2cf681a11aea
Filter matches 11896 tracked files
4879337 lines today, 647882 insertions / deletions
Export chart to /var/folders/2k/myk8kt8d4f52dzr19331wtxr0000gn/T/tmps7oukjk2.html
Show in browser? [Y/n] y
Click on the image to open the original interactive output:
The example shows the accumulated changes in C++ files outside tests since Release 8.0 branched on Jan 16, 2019. The size of an arc represents the amount of change in a file/directory relative to its sibling files/directories. The color of an arc indicates the amount of change relative to its line count today. The amount of change is the sum of insertions and deletions.
Reduced help page
usage: git-baobab [-h] [-filter .*] [-exclude .*]
[-o <random temporary>] [-b] [-v] [-vv]
[<file extension filters>]
[<artifact options>]
since
git baobab: explore changes in a sunburst chart
positional arguments:
since The git commit to start the analysis from
optional arguments:
-h show this help message and exit
-filter .* Add the given regex to the file filter
-exclude ^$ Exclude matching files from the file filter
-o <random temporary>
-b Run in batch mode
Set specific path for HTML output file
-v Dump invoked git commands
-vv Dump invoked git commands and output
include files with extensions:
--actionscript as, mxml
--ada ada, adb, ads
--asciidoc adoc, ad, asc, asciidoc
--apl apl
--asm asm, s
--asp asp, asa, aspx, asax, ashx, ascx, asmx
--aspx asp, asa, aspx, asax, ashx, ascx, asmx
--batch bat, cmd
--bitbake bb, bbappend, bbclass, inc
--bro bro, bif
--cc c, h, xs
--cfmx cfc, cfm, cfml
--chpl chpl
--clojure clj, cljs, cljc, cljx
--coffee coffee, cjsx
--config config
--coq coq, g, v
--cpp cpp, cc, C, cxx, m, hpp, hh, h, H, hxx, tpp
--crystal cr, ecr
--csharp cs
--cshtml cshtml
--css css
--cython pyx, pxd, pxi
--delphi pas, int, dfm, nfm, dof, dpk, dpr, dproj, groupproj,
bdsgroup, bdsproj
--dlang d, di
--dot dot, gv
--dts dts, dtsi
--ebuild ebuild, eclass
--elisp el
--elixir ex, eex, exs
--elm elm
--erlang erl, hrl
--factor factor
--fortran f, F, f77, f90, F90, f95, f03, for, ftn, fpp, FPP
--fsharp fs, fsi, fsx
--gettext po, pot, mo
--glsl vert, tesc, tese, geom, frag, comp
--go go
--groovy groovy, gtmpl, gpp, grunit, gradle
--haml haml
--handlebars hbs
--haskell hs, hsig, lhs
--haxe hx
--hh h
--html htm, html, shtml, xhtml
--idris idr, ipkg, lidr
--ini ini
--ipython ipynb
--isabelle thy
--j ijs
--jade jade
--java java, properties
--jinja2 j2
--js es6, js, jsx, vue
--json json
--jsp jsp, jspx, jhtm, jhtml, jspf, tag, tagf
--julia jl
--kotlin kt
--less less
--liquid liquid
--lisp lisp, lsp
--log log
--lua lua
--m4 m4
--make Makefiles, mk, mak
--mako mako
--markdown markdown, mdown, mdwn, mkdn, mkd, md
--mason mas, mhtml, mpl, mtxt
--matlab m
--mathematica m, wl
--md markdown, mdown, mdwn, mkdn, mkd, md
--mercury m, moo
--naccess asa, rsa
--nim nim
--nix nix
--objc m, h
--objcpp mm, h
--ocaml ml, mli, mll, mly
--octave m
--org org
--parrot pir, pasm, pmc, ops, pod, pg, tg
--pdb pdb
--perl pl, pm, pm6, pod, t
--php php, phpt, php3, php4, php5, phtml
--pike pike, pmod
--plist plist
--plone pt, cpt, metadata, cpy, py, xml, zcml
--powershell ps1
--proto proto
--ps1 ps1
--pug pug
--puppet pp
--python py
--qml qml
--racket rkt, ss, scm
--rake Rakefile
--razor cshtml
--restructuredtext rst
--rs rs
--r r, R, Rmd, Rnw, Rtex, Rrst
--rdoc rdoc
--ruby rb, rhtml, rjs, rxml, erb, rake, spec
--rust rs
--salt sls
--sass sass, scss
--scala scala
--scheme scm, ss
--shell sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, fish
--smalltalk st
--sml sml, fun, mlb, sig
--sql sql, ctl
--stata do, ado
--stylus styl
--swift swift
--tcl tcl, itcl, itk
--terraform tf, tfvars
--tex tex, cls, sty
--thrift thrift
--tla tla
--tt tt, tt2, ttml
--toml toml
--ts ts, tsx
--twig twig
--vala vala, vapi
--vb bas, cls, frm, ctl, vb, resx
--velocity vm, vtl, vsl
--verilog v, vh, sv, svh
--vhdl vhd, vhdl
--vim vim
--wix wxi, wxs
--wsdl wsdl
--wadl wadl
--xml xml, dtd, xsl, xslt, xsd, ent, tld, plist, wsdl
--yaml yaml, yml
--cmake cmake, in (and CMakeLists.txt files)
customize artifacts:
-d3js https://d3js.org/d3.v5.min.js
URL to custom d3js variant (tested with v5)
-sha256js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/js-sha256/0.9.0/sha256.min.js
URL to custom script that provides a `sha256()` function
(for GitHub integration)
-baobabjs https://weliveindetail.github.io/git-baobab/baobab-static.v0.3.min.js
URL to custom baobab-static.js
-baobabcss https://weliveindetail.github.io/git-baobab/baobab-static.v0.3.css
URL to custom baobab-static.css