The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

Jujutsu equivalents, if anyone is curious:

What Changes the Most

jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk()) & committer_date(after:"1 year ago")' \
-T 'self.diff().files().map(|f| f.path() ++ "\n").join("")' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

Who Built This

jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk()) & ~merges()' \
-T 'self.author().name() ++ "\n"' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Where Do Bugs Cluster

jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk()) & description(regex:"(?i)fix|bug|broken")' \
-T 'self.diff().files().map(|f| f.path() ++ "\n").join("")' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

Is This Project Accelerating or Dying

jj log --no-graph -r 'ancestors(trunk())' \
-T 'self.committer().timestamp().format("%Y-%m") ++ "\n"' \
| sort | uniq -c

How Often Is the Team Firefighting

jj log --no-graph \
-r 'ancestors(trunk()) & committer_date(after:"1 year ago") & description(regex:"(?i)revert|hotfix|emergency|rollback")'

Much more verbose, closer to programming than shell scripting. But less flags to remember.

To me, it makes jujutsu look like the Nix of VCSes.

Not meaning to offend anyone: Nix is cool, but adds complexity. And as a disclaimer: I used jujutsu for a few months and went back to git. Mostly because git is wired in my fingers, and git is everywhere. Those examples of what jujutsu can do and not git sound nice, but in those few months I never remotely had a need for them, so it felt overkill for me.

Tbf you wouldn't use/switch to jj for (because of) those kind of commands, and are quite the outlier in the grand list of reasons to use jj. However the option to use the revset language in that manner is a high-ranking reason to use jj in my opinion.

The most frequent "complex" command I use is to find commits in my name that are unsigned, and then sign them (this is owing to my workflow with agents that commit on my behalf but I'm not going to give agents my private key!)

jj log -r 'mine() & ~signed()'

# or if yolo mode...

jj sign -r 'mine() & ~signed()'


I hadn't even spared a moment to consider the git equivalent but I would humbly expect it to be quite obtuse.

Actually, signing was one of the annoying parts of jujutsu for me: I sign with a security key, and the way jujutsu handled signing was very painful to me (I know it can be configured and I tried a few different ways, but it felt inherent to how jujutsu handles commits (revisions?)).
The only reasonable way to use signing in jj is with the sign-on-push config https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/config/#automatically-signing... rather than as commits are made
Settings - Jujutsu docs

I can't remember all of this, does anyone know of any LLM model trained on CLI which can be run locally?
If you copy those commands into a file and use that file to prompt the “sh” LLM.