Git log parser for Node.JS
npm install gitlog --save
import gitlog from "gitlog";
const options = {
repo: __dirname + "/test-repo-folder",
number: 20,
author: "Dom Harrington",
fields: ["hash", "abbrevHash", "subject", "authorName", "authorDateRel"],
execOptions: { maxBuffer: 1000 * 1024 },
};
const commits = await gitlog(options);
gitlog comes with full typescript support!
import gitlog, { GitlogOptions } from "gitlog";
// Option 1: Just use the function, returned commit type has specified fields
gitlog({
repo: "foo",
fields: ["subject", "authorName", "authorDate"],
});
// Option 2: Use Options type to create options
const options: GitlogOptions<"subject" | "authorName" | "authorDate"> = {
repo: "foo",
fields: ["subject", "authorName", "authorDate"],
};
gitlog(options);
// Option 3: Typescript Magic
const options = {
repo: "foo",
fields: ["subject", "authorName", "authorDate"] as const,
};
gitlog(options);
// NOT SUPPORTED: Without "as const" gitlog can't create a good return type
const options = {
repo: "foo",
fields: ["subject", "authorName", "authorDate"],
};
gitlog(options);
See git log
The location of the repo, required field.
The number of commits to return, defaults to 10.
Show commits more recent than a specific date.
Show commits older than a specific date.
Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer header lines that match the specified pattern.
Below fields was returned from the log:
This option is enabled by default.
Much more likely to set status codes to 'C' if files are exact copies of each other.
This option is disabled by default.
Pass the -m option to includes files in a merge commit.
This option is disabled by default.
Pass the --follow option to follow files across renames.
This option is disabled by default.
Find commits on all branches instead of just on the current one.
This option is disabled by default.
Show only commits in the specified branch or revision range.
By default uses the current branch and defaults to HEAD (i.e. the whole history leading to the current commit).
Optional field for getting only the commits that affected a specific line range of a given file.
Optional file filter for the git log command
Type: Object
Specify some options to be passed to the .exec() method:
cwd String Current working directory of the child processenv Object Environment key-value pairssetsid Booleanencoding String (Default: 'utf8')timeout Number (Default: 0)maxBuffer Number (Default: 200*1024)killSignal String (Default: 'SIGTERM')An array of fields to return from the log, here are the possible options:
hash - the long hash of the commit e.g. 7dd0b07625203f69cd55d779d873f1adcffaa84aabbrevHash - the abbreviated commit hash e.g. 7dd0b07treeHash - the tree hash of the commitabbrevTreeHash - the abbreviated commit hashparentHashes - the parent hashesabbrevParentHashes - the abbreviated parent hashesauthorName - author name of the commitauthorEmail - author email of the commitauthorDate - author date of the commitauthorDateRel - relative author date of the commitcommitterName - committer namecommitterEmail - committer emailcommitterDate - committer datecommitterDateRel - relative committer datesubject - commit message (first line)body - commit bodyrawBody - raw body (subject + body)tag - raw tag information of commitDefaults to 'abbrevHash', 'hash', 'subject' and 'authorName'.
This module works by executing a child process (using child_process.exec()) to the git executable, then parsing the stdout into commits. This is done using the --pretty command line option which allows you to provide a custom formatter to git log. To enable easy parsing the format is delimited by a tab (\t) character.
The following is an example of what a parsed commit might look like.
{
"hash": "6a7ef5e3b3d9c77743140443c8f9e792b0715721",
"abbrevHash": "6a7ef5e",
"treeHash": "f1bf51b15b48a00c33727f364afef695029864c0",
"abbrevTreeHash": "f1bf51b",
"parentHashes": "cfe06dbdb8d0a193640977e016a04678f8f3b04f",
"abbrevParentHashes": "cfe06dbdb8d0a193640977e016a04678f8f3b04f",
"authorName": "Dom Harrington",
"authorEmail": "dom@harringtonxxxxx",
"authorDate": "2015-04-09 09:39:23 +0100",
"authorDateRel": "6 days ago",
"committerName": "Dom Harrington",
"committerEmail": "dom@harringtonxxxxx",
"committerDate": "Thu Apr 9 09:39:23 2015 +0100",
"committerDateRel": "6 days ago",
"subject": "1.0.0",
"status": ["M"],
"files": ["package.json"]
}
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
FAQs
Git log parser for Node.JS
The npm package gitlog receives a total of 105,194 weekly downloads. As such, gitlog popularity was classified as popular.
We found that gitlog demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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