Shout out to Josh Comeau for pointing me towards this repo. He popped it in my Twitter feed.

A really cool way to view git history for those that like a nice visual. Slide through the history and see previous changes elegantly slide in.

"Quickly browse the history of any GitHub (GitLab and Bitbucket comming soon)"

pomber / git-history

Quickly browse the history of a file from any git repository

Git History

Quickly browse the history of files in any git repo:

1. Go to a file in GitHub (or GitLab, or Bitbucket)
2. Replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz
3. There's no step three

Try it

If you like this project consider backing my open source work on Patreon!
And follow @pomber on twitter for updates.

Extensions

Browsers

You can also add an Open in Git History button to GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket with the Chrome and Firefox extensions.

Or you can use a bookmarklet.

javascript: (function() {
  var url = window.location.href;
  var regEx = /^(https?\:\/\/)(www\.)?(github|gitlab|bitbucket)\.(com|org)\/(.*)$/i;
  if (regEx.test(url)) {
    url = url.replace(regEx, "$1$3.githistory.xyz/$5");
    window.open(url, "_blank");
  } else {
    alert("Not a Git File URL");
  }
}

…

View on GitHub

Thanks for the interesting project @pomber!

Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash

Comments

[Nans Dumortier]

I found this one as well when I was hanging around on github, it is really nice !

• the author left plenty of open issues for anyone who wants to contribute

[Nick Taylor]

Update 2019/02/14: GitHub is a fan.

GitHub

@github

Ever wonder how your files change over time? ⏳

@pomber created a tool with GitHub's API to let you take a peek.
github.com/pomber/github-…

20:57 PM - 13 Feb 2019

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