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GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more

35 mentions on Hacker News by 32 people: 10 stories, 25 comments · first 2010-08-12 · latest 2026-02-20

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  1. This looks loosely like something already present in git-extras[1]. [1]: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/main/Commands.md#git-delete-merged-branches
    comment by jldugger · 2026-02-20 · in I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
  2. Obligatory mention of https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/main/Commands.md for more/similar commands. Especially useful to me is `git bulk` to apply a command to all the git repos under the directory, and `git ignore "bin/"` to quickly…
    comment by kenmacd · 2024-11-03 · in ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands
  3. …10 files which were having most of the modifications after they were created and I stumbled upon https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/main/Commands.md Some great extra git command are there.
    comment by Dr-NULL · 2024-02-13 · in Git tips and tricks
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    Git-Extras Commands
    story by manx · 2023-08-05 · 0 comments
  5. https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md "git summary" from git-extras works too
    comment by 29athrowaway · 2022-11-06 · in Twitter sources say company reached out to fired people asking them to come back
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    Git-extras: utility scripts for Git (repl, summary, merge-repo,...)
    story by okl · 2022-01-28 · 0 comments
  7. …part of git-extras[1] for a while. It doesn't use fancy git magic, so maybe this is better. [1]: https://github.com/tj/git-extras
    comment by jldugger · 2021-06-21 · in Git undo: We can do better
  8. Calling attention to this which has an undo command and has been very helpful for Git tasks: https://github.com/tj/git-extras
    comment by rglover · 2021-06-21 · in Git undo: We can do better
  9. …> "a Github CLI tool that allows you to avoid having to go to the UI." -- better yet, git-extras ( https://github.com/tj/git-extras ) provides CLI utils that work across github, gitlab, and bitbucket.
    comment by chrisweekly · 2021-04-24 · in Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests (2018)
  10. …tech.people-doc.com/merging-the-right-way.html 2: https://tech.people-doc.com/psycho-rebasing.html 3: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/1894f453f6967201117230...
    comment by fire · 2021-04-24 · in A Better Model for Stacked Pull Requests
  11. …problems. The real issue is finding a home. Someone's personal dotfiles aren't really usable, maybe https://github.com/tj/git-extras or some project along those lines.
    comment by Mathnerd314 · 2021-04-23 · in How to fuck up software releases (2019)
  12. …it's just really hard to build a strong foundation on sand. https://github.com/mapmeld/gitjk https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/man/git-undo.md https://github.com/janekr/git-undo
    comment by dfabulich · 2021-04-09 · in A look how branches work in Git
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    Git utilities – repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit %
    story by chetangoti · 2021-02-21 · 0 comments
  14. https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md does it pretty well. Everything you've listed is covered there I think.
    comment by crucialfelix · 2020-10-12 · in Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go
  15. …few tools: - hub https://github.com/github/hub - lab https://github.com/zaquestion/lab - git-extras https://github.com/tj/git-extras
    comment by moltar · 2019-07-21 · in The Case Against Pull Requests
  16. 170M for what can essentially be done with https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md ? Wow
    comment by fs111 · 2019-05-03 · in Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
  17. In the same vein, git-extras ( https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md ) has many similar metrics within a wider git enhancement suite.
    comment by stblack · 2018-12-17 · in Git quick statistics
  18. It's a pretty useless wrapper over "git reset": https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/bin/git-undo It won't help you if you don't understand what the last command did or when it overwrote local files; it'll just make everything…
    comment by jwilk · 2018-08-05 · in Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
  19. https://github.com/tj/git-extras provides "git undo" (among others).
    comment by lgas · 2018-08-05 · in Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
  20. …} && gitcommitdate" There's also a whole boatload of commands in git-extras for those interested: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md
    comment by mehrdadn · 2018-08-05 · in Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
  21. …show statistics on the git history where you can see the files that are most frequently worked on. https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/bin/git-effort
    comment by acdanger · 2017-10-02 · in Interesting Codebases
  22. Git-extras[0] is also quite nice. [0] https://github.com/tj/git-extras
    comment by herrvogel- · 2017-05-24 · in Little Things I Like to Do with Git
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    TJ Holowaychuk's GIT utilities
    story by xvirk · 2017-01-24 · 0 comments
  24. …on a structure which enables that sort of usage. A really great project with similar utility is https://github.com/tj/git-extras , which I think could provide a good model for refactoring git-quick-stats.
    comment by Zikes · 2017-01-16 · in Git-quick-stats – A simple and efficient way to access various statistics
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    git-extras – repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages
    story by tilt · 2016-04-22 · 0 comments
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    Git-extras
    story by JustinGarrison · 2016-04-19 · 0 comments
  27. Nice aliases. Another cool project is git-extras.[1] [1] https://github.com/tj/git-extras
    comment by julionc · 2016-01-29 · in Gittools – perform Git commands in multiple repositories at the same time
  28. …git log messages from the git history until the last tag and updates the `{History,Changelog}.md`. https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/bin/git-changel...
    comment by zimbatm · 2015-03-20 · in Generate Your Changelog From GitHub Issues
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    GIT utils: repo summary, repl, changelog population, author percentages and more
    story by areski · 2014-11-25 · 0 comments
  30. `git summary` from git-extras is great. https://github.com/tj/git-extras
    comment by malandrew · 2014-11-01 · in Immutable.js – Immutable Data Collections
  31. …tool with respect to knowing more about collaborators is git-summary in TJ Holowaychuk's git-extras https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras#git-summary
    comment by malandrew · 2014-04-05 · in Contributing to Open Source on GitHub
  32. …is excellent for finding solid contributors that are not the maintainer on open-source projects: https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras
    comment by malandrew · 2013-11-02 · in Discovering Senior Developers from Source Code History
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    GIT utilities: summary, repl, changelog population
    story by goodwink · 2012-02-08 · 0 comments
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    Little git extras
    story by suryas · 2010-08-25 · 0 comments
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    GIT extras
    story by tjholowaychuk · 2010-08-12 · 0 comments