git-velocity/README.md

Git Velocity

Turn your GitHub activity into a game. Track velocity. Earn achievements. Win at development.

Features • Quick Start • GitHub Action • Configuration • Achievements

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What is Git Velocity?

Git Velocity analyzes your GitHub repositories and generates a beautiful, gamified dashboard showing developer velocity metrics. It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for your code contributions.

$ git-velocity analyze --config .git-velocity.yaml
🚀 Fetching data from GitHub...
📊 Processing 3 repositories...
🏆 Calculating scores and achievements...
✨ Generated dashboard at ./dist

$ git-velocity serve --port 8080
🌐 Starting preview server at http://localhost:8080

✨ Features

📊 Comprehensive Metrics

• Commits: Count, lines added/deleted, files changed
• Pull Requests: Opened, merged, closed, average size, time to merge
• Code Reviews: Reviews given, comments, approvals, response time
• Issues: Opened, closed, comments

🎮 Gamification Engine

• Scoring System: Earn points for every contribution
• 34 Achievements: From "First Steps" to "Code Warrior"
• Leaderboards: Compete with your team
• Tier Progression: Bronze → Silver → Gold → Diamond
• General velocity chart: Visualize your velocity over time

👥 Team Analytics

• Configure teams and see aggregated metrics
• Team leaderboards and comparisons
• Member contribution breakdowns

⚡ Performance Optimized

• Local Git Analysis: Clone repos locally for 10x faster commit analysis
• Smart Caching: File-based caching with configurable TTL
• Concurrent Requests: Parallel API calls for faster data fetching
• Bot Filtering: Automatically excludes Dependabot, Renovate, and other bots

🎨 Beautiful Dashboard

• Modern Vue.js SPA with dark/light mode
• Responsive design for desktop and mobile
• Interactive charts and visualizations
• GitHub Pages deployment ready

🔐 Flexible Authentication

• Personal Access Token (PAT)
• GitHub App authentication
• Environment variable support

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Go install
go install github.com/lukaszraczylo/git-velocity/cmd/git-velocity@latest

# Or download binary from releases
# https://github.com/lukaszraczylo/git-velocity/releases

Create Configuration

Create .git-velocity.yaml in your repository:

version: "1.0"

auth:
  github_token: "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"

repositories:
  - owner: "your-org"
    name: "your-repo"
  # Or use patterns:
  - owner: "your-org"
    pattern: "*"  # All repos in org

teams:
  - name: "Backend Team"
    members: ["dev1", "dev2", "dev3"]
    color: "#3B82F6"
  - name: "Frontend Team"
    members: ["dev4", "dev5"]
    color: "#10B981"

scoring:
  enabled: true
  points:
    commit: 10
    commit_with_tests: 15
    pr_opened: 25
    pr_merged: 50
    pr_reviewed: 30
    fast_review_1h: 50
    fast_review_4h: 25

output:
  directory: "./dist"

Run Analysis

# Set your GitHub token
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_token_here

# Run analysis
git-velocity analyze --config .git-velocity.yaml --verbose

# Preview the dashboard
git-velocity serve --port 8080

🤖 GitHub Action

Automate your velocity reports with our GitHub Action:

name: Git Velocity Report

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * 1'  # Weekly on Monday
  workflow_dispatch:      # Manual trigger

jobs:
  analyze:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Run Git Velocity Analysis
        uses: lukaszraczylo/git-velocity@v1
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          config_file: '.git-velocity.yaml'
          output_dir: './velocity-report'

      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: velocity-dashboard
          path: ./velocity-report

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v4
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: ./velocity-report

Action Inputs

Input	Description	Default
github_token	GitHub token for API access	Required
config_file	Path to configuration file	.git-velocity.yaml
output_dir	Output directory for dashboard	./dist
verbose	Enable verbose output	false

Action Outputs

Output	Description
output_dir	Path to the generated dashboard

Note

: The action runs as a Docker container for fast execution. Use separate steps for artifact upload and GitHub Pages deployment as shown in the example above.

🏆 Achievements

Git Velocity includes 34 unlockable achievements:

Commit Achievements

Achievement	Description	Threshold
🍼 First Steps	Made your first commit	1 commit
🌱 Getting Started	Made 10 commits	10 commits
🔥 Committed	Made 100 commits	100 commits
🤖 Code Machine	Made 500 commits	500 commits
👑 Code Warrior	Made 1000 commits	1000 commits

Pull Request Achievements

Achievement	Description	Threshold
🔀 PR Pioneer	Opened your first PR	1 PR
🌿 Pull Request Pro	Opened 10 PRs	10 PRs
🔀 Merge Master	Opened 50 PRs	50 PRs

Review Achievements

Achievement	Description	Threshold
🔍 Code Reviewer	Reviewed your first PR	1 review
👁️ Review Regular	Reviewed 25 PRs	25 reviews
🎓 Review Guru	Reviewed 100 PRs	100 reviews

Speed Achievements

Achievement	Description	Threshold
⚡ Speed Demon	Avg review response < 1 hour	< 1h
⏰ Quick Responder	Avg review response < 4 hours	< 4h

Activity Pattern Achievements

Achievement	Description	Threshold
📅 Week Warrior	7 day contribution streak	7 days
📆 Month Master	30 day contribution streak	30 days
🌅 Early Bird	50 commits before 9am	50 commits
🌙 Night Owl	50 commits after 9pm	50 commits
💀 Nosferatu	25 commits between midnight-4am	25 commits
🛋️ Weekend Warrior	25 weekend commits	25 commits

Code Quality Achievements

Achievement	Description	Threshold
🗜️ Small PR Advocate	10 PRs under 100 lines	10 PRs
⚛️ Atomic Commits Hero	50 PRs under 100 lines	50 PRs
✅ Clean Code	5 PRs merged without changes requested	5 PRs
💎 Flawless	25 PRs merged without changes requested	25 PRs

⚙️ Configuration

Full Configuration Reference

version: "1.0"

auth:
  # Option 1: Personal Access Token
  github_token: "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"

  # Option 2: GitHub App
  github_app:
    app_id: 123456
    installation_id: 789012
    private_key_path: "./private-key.pem"

repositories:
  # Single repository
  - owner: "your-org"
    name: "repo-name"
  # All repos in organization
  - owner: "your-org"
    pattern: "*"
  # Pattern matching
  - owner: "your-org"
    pattern: "frontend-*"

date_range:
  start: "2024-01-01"
  end: "2024-12-31"

teams:
  - name: "Backend Team"
    members: ["user1", "user2"]
    color: "#3B82F6"

scoring:
  enabled: true
  points:
    commit: 10
    commit_with_tests: 15
    lines_added: 0.1
    lines_deleted: 0.05
    pr_opened: 25
    pr_merged: 50
    pr_reviewed: 30
    review_comment: 5
    issue_opened: 15
    issue_closed: 20
    fast_review_1h: 50
    fast_review_4h: 25
    fast_review_24h: 10

output:
  directory: "./dist"
  format: ["html", "json"]
  deploy:
    gh_pages: true
    artifact: true

cache:
  enabled: true
  directory: "./.cache"
  ttl: "24h"

options:
  concurrent_requests: 5
  include_bots: false
  bot_patterns:
    - "*[bot]"
    - "dependabot*"
    - "renovate*"
  use_local_git: true
  clone_directory: "./.repos"
  user_aliases:
    - github_login: "username"
      emails: ["work@example.com", "personal@example.com"]
      names: ["Full Name", "nickname"]

User Aliases

Map multiple git emails/names to a single GitHub login:

options:
  user_aliases:
    - github_login: "johndoe"
      emails:
        - "john.doe@company.com"
        - "johnd@personal.com"
      names:
        - "John Doe"
        - "JD"

Environment Variables

All configuration values support environment variable expansion:

auth:
  github_token: "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
  github_app:
    private_key: "${GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY}"

📖 CLI Commands

analyze

Analyze repositories and generate the dashboard.

git-velocity analyze [flags]

Flags:
  -c, --config string   Path to configuration file (default "config.yaml")
  -o, --output string   Output directory for generated site (default "./dist")
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose output

serve

Start a local preview server.

git-velocity serve [flags]

Flags:
  -d, --directory string   Directory to serve (default "./dist")
  -p, --port string        Port to listen on (default "8080")

version

Print version information.

git-velocity version

🛠️ Development

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/lukaszraczylo/git-velocity.git
cd git-velocity

# Install dependencies
go mod download
cd web && npm install && cd ..

# Build
make build

# Run tests
make test

# Build SPA
make build-spa

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🙏 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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