contrib

contrib

Command line tool to help document contributors to a git project. These will be written to a file in markdown format.

Installation

Install with homebrew

brew install twinsnes/tap/contrib

Or install by downlaoding the binary from the releases page

Usage

To use contrib, call the binary from the root of your git project. It wil scan the git history from the current HEAD and write a list of contributors sorted by number of commits to a file.

contrib

To see more usage options use the --help | -h flag

cotrib -h

Controlling where in the file the list is written

The contributor list will be appended at the end of the file by default. You can also control where in the file the list is written by adding the stand and ends tags where you would like the list to be written.

<!---Contrib Block Start-->
This will be replaced by the list of contributors.
<!---Contrib Block End-->

Output file

By default, it will write these to the README.md file in the root of your project.

To change the output file, use the --path | -p flag to set the path

contrib --path CONTRIBUTORS.md

or

contrib -p CONTRIBUTORS.md

Contributors

Without these amazing people, this project wouldn't exist.

• Thomas Winsnes

This app was scaffolded using cligen ❤️