Repo Plotter

Useless script that plots repository stats over time.

It just iterates over all the commits on a specific branch and plots the requested lines of code and/or line of comments.

Dependencies

This script requires:

Before all run

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

to install the needed dependencies.

After that you can run the script

$ python3 -m plotter --repository "repository_url"

and it will generate an image like this:

--repository <repository_url>
- ignored if --offline is defined, otherwise required
- Specifies the repository on which you want to use the script
--branch <branch_name>
- optional
- Specifies another branch instead of the default one to run this script on
--offline
- optional
- Specifies if the script has to use the pre-downloaded repository (found in .repo folder) or it has to clone it again using --repository flag
--dir <directory_path>
- optional, if not defined it will use .repo directory
- Specifies the temporary directory to use to store the repository defined with the flag --repository
--input_file <file_path>
- optional, if defined it will override --repository and --offline flags
- Specifies a custom json file to feed the script. It must has been generated during an old execution
--write_output
- optional
- Specifies wether the script has to write the intermediate results to output
--output_folder
- required if --write_output is defined
- Specifies the folder where the script has to write the output files
--no_preprocessing
- Doesn't preprocess data. The script will plot all the commits