Tracking work hours through git [closed]

Question

I recently finished a project that involved me working variable hours in one sitting.

For example, I might start at 8AM and go till 2:30 PM. I would make a commit as soon as I started, and commit right before I left.

I want to approximate how many hours I have worked on this project.

I had planned on looking through my commits and figuring this out manually, but the git web interface just gives a vague timestamp such as "authored 2 months ago".

Does anybody know of any third party app that counts hours through git?

Or hopefully provide any pointers on what to try next?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Since I couldn't manage to build git-hours I made a tool to estimate the work done by each developer on the repository, following a similar simple algorithm: it still assumes a flat duration for the first commit of the session.

You can get it here: git-estimate

The code is written in plain go and uses go-git to read the repo's commits.

Usage

At a minimum run:

git-estimate -repo=/path/to/repo

this will use default settings to compute the time spent on the repo at the specified path.

git-estimate -h
  -baseline float
        baseline value for session estimate (default 2)
  -estimate string
        estimation method. Accepted values are "session" and "day". (default "session")
  -json
        if true will output estimates in JSON format
  -repo string
        git repository path. If no flag is specified the current folder is assumed (default ".")

Answer 2

git-hours didn't work for me. So I have built a simple npm script called git-time.

Install

npm install -g git-time

Usage

git-time <path>

Where <path> should be a valid Git repo root path.