Herodot

Tracks your work based on git branch checkouts and commits. With herodot every time you switch branches or commit into a branch, the brach name, time and project is logged into a worklog file. Herodot can then parse that worklog file and show you a rough estimate on which branch in which folder you worked on and how long. This can aid you with your personal time tracking.

Install with:

$ gem install herodot

Make sure you have installed at least ruby 2.1 or any newer ruby version.

Track a git repository:

$ herodot track [path=.]

Show your worklogs this week:

$ herodot show

or shorter

$ herodot

Show last week

$ herodot show last week

Show worklogs from 19-12-2016

$ herodot show 19-12-2016

Herodot uses Chronic (https://github.com/mojombo/chronic) under the hood so you can enter anything that chronic supports.

Instead of a terminal table you can also output into the json format:

$ herodot show -f json
$ herodot show -f json last week
$ herodot show --format json last week

Show Help:

$ herodot help
$ herodot help track
$ herodot help show

If you use https://github.com/bitcrowd/tickety-tick or otherwise have branch names, that contain the issue number, you can link a tracked herodot repository with your issue tracker, so it will print urls of issues it recognizes under the branch name.

To use this feature set up a link with

$ herodot link

You are then guided through the process of linking. When using JIRA, Github, or GitLab with tickety-tick, this should be rather self-explaining, but you can also set up a custom tracker if you are using something different. Just choose other and add a URL, to which issue numbers can be appended and a Ruby style regular expression, to cut out the issue number out of your branches.

The result will be written into a .herodot.yml file in the current or specified directory.

HINT: If you do not want to add .herodot.yml into your repo or .gitignore, you can add it to ./.git/info/exclude as well.

Herodot writes a configuration yaml to ~/.herodot.yml with something like this:

---
projects_directory: "~" # Directory where you checkout your projects. Used to shorten paths
work_times:             # Your work times that are used for guessing the times.
  work_start: '9:30'
  lunch_break_start: '13:00'
  lunch_break_end: '13:30'
  work_end: '18:00'

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/bitcrowd/herodot.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.