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Re:Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:29AM (#47612038)
This is awesome! Thank you!
Re:Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:43PM (#43407790)
I'm very happy to hear you had fun with it. Thank you for the comprehensive feedback and for trying it out!

Not sure what's happening with the tarball. Will take a look at that.

Re:Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:57PM (#43406728)
Thank you very much!
Re:Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:33PM (#43406514)
That's a neat idea, I can see how it'd be useful.

If you have a shell that supports extended globbing, you could do something like:

  $ git who table */**/*.go
That works for me using Bash. I believe all that's happening here is that Bash is expanding the globs and passing a long list of individual filepaths as arguments to git who. Git who then passes them to git log so that it only tallies the commits you'd get by running:

  $ git log */**/*.go
Re:Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:01PM (#43406228)
The -n flag does this. Use -n 0 to show all rows
Re:Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:01PM (#43406226)
Like other commenters have said, mailmap does this and git who will respect your mailmap file.
Re:Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:00PM (#43406218)
These are all build dependencies. You don't need any of these just to run git who. The language could be clearer; I'll update it.
Re:Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:58PM (#43406205)
Wow! I had no idea. Will need to update the README. Thanks for the tip!

Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming

Posted by weebst on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:20PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who

I've always wanted a better way to explore the authorship data embedded in a Git commit log. I'm having fun building a CLI tool to do this.It's a bit like the "Contributors" tab on Github that shows you how many commits each contributor has made but much faster and with many more options.If you get a chance to try it out, please let me know. I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions. Thank you!

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Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:30AM (#22803009)
https://twobithistory.org

If you think you'd enjoy long-form, deeply researched essays that look at the development of technical ideas throughout the history of computing, I've got you covered.

Re:What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:48AM (#17799188)
Thanks a lot for pointing these out! I've corrected them.