Chris Lowis Music Notes

Using Rake and Git to find out what I did yesterday

November 24, 2010

At our daily stand-ups we have to answer the question "What did you do yesterday". I wrote a little Rake task for the project I am working on to help me answer: 

desc "List of all commits commited in the previous 24hours"
task :yesterday do
  git_author = ENV['GIT_AUTHOR'] || "chris.lowis"
  cmd = "git --no-pager log --after=\"1 day ago\" --pretty=oneline --author=#{git_author}"
  puts "Commits in the last 24 hours for #{git_author}"
  system(cmd)
end

This simply shells out to git with the appropriate command line arguments giving me a simple list: 

Commits in the last 24 hours for chris.lowis
6663b95b5832sda91998c05fea7970fe44da13af Adding a great new feature
677b2e8092406b3c2031e8f065fg5672d90b8108 Fixing someone elses bug

There's quite a lot of interesting options that you can pass to git log, see the documentation for a list of them.

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