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[aren55555]

After cloning, I had to change the perms of the .sh files, install flask via pip and hope for the best. I wasn't sure what Python version to use, I used some 3.x. It would be really nice if this was fully containerized and I could launch in docker/podman.

Also I wasn't sure how to get the colors :shrug:

[jmforsythe → aren55555]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to add instructions for the sh files and the python version. This is still very much a WIP so I'm not going to look into docker just yet.

For the highlighting, currently only a single email pattern input is supported. Type in your pattern into the box at the bottom, then click submit. The pattern gets fed into a LIKE statement in SQLite, so just plaintext, with % representing a wildcard eg torvalds% would highlight files modified by an email starting with torvalds.

[matt_trentini → jmforsythe]

Looks great! Thanks for your work on this.

I had the same minor install issue, specifically needed to do the following:

  >chmod +x git-log-format.sh generate-db.sh
  >python -m venv .venv
  >source .venv/bin/activate
  >pip install flask

I'm not sure the colouring is working as expected; I tried submitting with many email addresses I know are in the repo it ran over (with/out the wildcard) and the highlighting behaviour was difficult to predict.

[jmforsythe → matt_trentini]

Do you mind sharing what specifically the colouring is doing, and what you expect it to be doing?

[thrdbndndn → jmforsythe]

i'm not sure why it needs sh to begin with.

At a glance the sh script can be trivially replaced by native python. And it would make it work cross-platform (i.e. on Windows).