Method log

Trace the history of an individual method in a git repository (experimental)

From freerange·Updated September 9, 2023·View on GitHub·

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Trace the history of an individual method in a git repository (experimental). The project is written primarily in Ruby, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2014. Key topics include: archeology, ast, git, history, libgit2.

Method Log

Trace the history of an individual method in a git repository (experimental).

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Requirements

Tool runtime: Ruby >= v2.0.0
Source code under analysis: Ruby >= v1.8

Install

gem install method_log

Run

Display the commit history for a single method

$ method_log [options] <method-signature>

Build a parallel git repository of method definitions

$ build_methods_repo [options] <source-repo-path> <target-repo-path>

Credits

Written by James Mead and the other members of Go Free Range.

Thanks to Michael Feathers for some ideas in delta-flora.

Thanks to TICOSA for giving me the impetus to do something about an idea I'd been kicking around for a while.

License

Released under the MIT License.

Contributors

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floehopper

134 commits

sohaibbhatti

2 commits

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