Ben Halpern

Posted on Mar 21, 2017

Git standup, how did I ever live without you?

#git #gitextensions

I am sure you've been preparing for a meeting where a team typically discusses what they did yesterday and what they are planning to do today. These are often called "standup meetings". If you are anything like me, the "remember what you did yesterday" part does not always go as smoothly as it could. Panic typically ensues and I'd find myself putting in more work than I should need to in order to simply remember the day before.

I have been using git standup for about six months and I have been very pleased. It is a simple git extension that lists your commits from yesterday.

The basic git standup command will display the git commits you performed yesterday. There are nine more flags for modification of the timeframe and other goodies. It does not provide any particularly advanced functionality, but all in all, I have found this library to be a simple and intuitive part of my daily workflow.

Top comments (36)

Gleb Bahmutov • Mar 21 '17

Now, if only it grabbed them across ALL my projects (or my org Git repos) and sent an email to everyone interested + dashboard that would be the best stand up tool!

Miloš Prchlík • Apr 24 '17

How about this one github.com/psss/did/ ? It can grab "wth did I do last week??" data from other sources, not just git repos, see github.com/psss/did/tree/master/di... for the current set of plugins. It does not solve the "dashboard" part but it definitely produces something that can easily be copypasted into any "status report" e-mail :)

Armin Grodon • Apr 21 '17

I could help you on the "across ALL my projects" part. Wrote something similar to remember what I did (and where).

github.com/x4121/git-amnesia

Josh Hawkins • Mar 22 '17

This is a good idea - I may write a little node script to use this tool and do just this! :)

Gleb Bahmutov • Mar 22 '17

Hit me up then, it would be great OSS or side project,

enguerran 🐐💨 • Mar 28 '17

Do you see this? github.com/kamranahmedse/git-stand...

William • Apr 21 '17

That didn't work for me, so instead I did the following to list all my git repos in ~/src

find . -depth -5 -type d -name ".git" | sed -e "s/\(\.\/\)\(.*\)\(\.git\)/~\/src\/\2/g" | tr '\n' ','

Si • Oct 14 '19

I could probably add something like this to omgit

Peter Benjamin (they/them) • May 21 '22 • Edited

That sounds like Jira!

... ducks and covers ...

Tim Abell • Mar 29 '19

Combine it with gist.github.com/timabell/1391205#f... perhaps

Jess Lee • Mar 21 '17

😆

Lennart • Apr 21 '17

You can do something similar with TFS:

```tf history "$/" /recursive /user:YOURUSERNAME /noprompt | head -n NUMBEROFCHECKINS



and as a Powershell function:



```function tfhist {tf history "$/" /recursive /user:YOURUSERNAME /noprompt | head -n NUMBEROFCHECKINS}
set-alias standup tfhist

Devin Gleason Lambert • Mar 22 '17

I had such high hopes. Installed it only found 1 commit in the last 20 days.

Meghan (she/her) • Apr 14 '19

A lack of activity doesn’t always mean it’s broken or out of date. It could just mean they finished.

Ben Halpern • Apr 14 '19

Yeah, especially for a personal utility that interacts with git. Not exactly Kubernetes-level stakes.

Andrés Felipe Piñeros • Nov 4 '17

Damn! I wish I only worked with one repository. Who isn't lazy enough to publish a bash script that starts at the parent folder, iterates all the subfolders (git projects), calls the standup command inside each and writes the results of all in a single file?

Tim Abell • Mar 29 '19

Combine it with gist.github.com/timabell/1391205#f... perhaps

ItsASine (Kayla) • Dec 9 '20

It took 3.5 years but I'm finally on board the git standup hype train. I worked on like 8 tickets yesterday and remembered there was a way to get a summary of all my commits to just look at that instead of tracking it down in Jira haha