View Git history, but animated

Aug 12, 2024#学习 #Github473

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This is an authorized synchronous article introducing a tool called pomber/git-history that visualizes repository file changes in an animated and clear way. Users can easily try it by replacing github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL. The tool offers a faster and more intuitive way to check past commits' impact on files compared to traditional methods like Blame. The author also provides bookmarks and browser extensions for quick access. Additionally, browser plugins and CLI versions are available for download.

This is a synchronized article with authorization, original link: https://www.liuzhen932.top/posts/default/githistory

It's 4202 now, and there are countless tools available to view Git commit history, including CLI (just git history) and GUI (Github Desktop).

This brings me to a ⭐ treasure project I found, pomber/git-history is an online tool that can present the change history of repository files quickly and clearly in an animated way.

Want to give it a try? It's very simple:

Go to a file in GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
Replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz
And that's it, use the left and right arrow keys to view the changes in animated form

Demo provided by the official website

Compared to the Blame method we usually use, this tool provides a faster and more intuitive way to see how past commits have affected files.

The author also provides bookmarks and browser extensions for quick use:

/* Bookmark Original: https://github.com/pomber/git-history?tab=readme-ov-file#browsers */
javascript: (function() {
  var url = window.location.href;
  var regEx = /^(https?\:\/\/)(www\.)?(github|gitlab|bitbucket)\.(com|org)\/(.*)$/i;
  if (regEx.test(url)) {
    url = url.replace(regEx, "$1$3.githistory.xyz/$5");
    window.open(url, "_blank");
  } else {
    alert("Not a Git File URL");
  }
})();

You can download the browser extension version here, and you can even download the CLI version for local use here.

Well, that's the treasure project I recently discovered, thank you for reading, see you next time!