Github-like working directory history

git-working-history

#!/bin/bash

FILES=`git ls-tree --name-only HEAD .`
MAXLEN=0
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
for f in $FILES; do
    if [ ${#f} -gt $MAXLEN ]; then
        MAXLEN=${#f}
    fi
done
for f in $FILES; do
    str=$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%C(green)%cr%Creset %x09 %C(cyan)%h%Creset %s %C(yellow)(%cn)%Creset" $f)
    printf "%-${MAXLEN}s -- %s\n" "$f" "$str"
done

It would probably be useful to commit this as an executable file, rather than force the downloader to change permissions on it (and thus have a dirty local copy).

I also noticed that tabbing gets messed up if you have a combination of file that were edited, say "3 years, 3 months ago" and some that were edited "3 years ago". Would be cool to either round the dates if older than a year ago, or add an option to print the dates as a datestamp, rather than relative.

Other than those minor annoyances, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much for posting it!

@coldcandor sorry for the late response, but gist doesn't send out notifications :(

For the spacing, I agree it can be improved, I just admittedly never spent too much time on this.

I'll think of making this a full-fledged utility, rather than a gist, thanks for the feedback.

I've modified this:
https://github.com/mzavoloka/gitls

change /bin/bash to /bin/sh for portability
change echo -en to printf for portability and functionality (most echo implementations don't support -e)
change the use of backticks to $() to be consistent.