GoBrowse - A Git Addon

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DISCLAIMER: So far, this code has been only lightly tested with a very narrow usecase and only on macOS. Have a look at the source to make sure it will work for you before running it in you project. It is intended as a tool to ease browsing the history of a project NOT to replace or teach ANY Git functionality.

What is it?

GoBrowse is a Git add-on to easily browse project history from within a sandbox in the project directory. The goal is to ease the pain of rolling through commits, be it for learning a new project or just to grab a lost line of code.

How to Install?

For Mac

Get the source with go get github.com/cbergoon/git-gobrowse

Build the source with go install github.com/cbergoon/git-gobrowse

Move to a directory on your path with mv $GOPATH/bin/git-gobrowse /usr/local/bin/git-gobrowse

Usage

Start gobrowse by running: git gobrowse -i or git-gobrowse -i

This will start a REPL from which the repository can be explored with the commands in the next section. Keep in mind, all changes to repo state are made in the .sandbox directory.

Commands

clone: Re-clone the current repository into the .sandbox directory.

list: List all commits. Notating the current commit.

branch-list: List all branches.

move \<hash>: Move to a specific commit.

first: Move to the repositories first commit.

last: Move to the repositories last commit.

prev: Move back one commit.

next: Move forward one commit.

branch \<branch>: Switch to a specified branch.

And thats it!

Todo

1. Implement 'help' command
2. Implement 'clean' command
3. Kinda messy. Could be a lot better with some refactoring...
4. Better testing?
5. Show +/- 10 commits on list. With ...above and below...