When I was in university, I wanted a program that would tally up my git commits in a certain project that I'm working on. Based on search engine ninja skills, I couldn't find a program that did this. I decided to scratch my own itch.
I present DrillSergeant. This is a command-line application to tally up commits, ordered by commit count per contributor. In other words, DrillSergeant orders the contributors by how many commits they have made in descending order. For example, the first contributor listed will have the most commits in the project. The second contributor will have the second most commits, and so on.
To use this command-line application, you must be in a git project. Otherwise, a nasty error will appear and you won't get your report. You can filter by branch or by tag (cannot be both, another nasty error appears here). You can get your report in your terminal, in a spreadsheet, or a PDF.
### Command-line arguments
```bash
-o, --output <pdf|stdout|xlsx> Specify the output given to the user
-b, --branch <branch> Specify the branch to filter by
You may get releases from the [releases page](https://scm.wyattjmiller.com/wymiller/DrillSergeant/releases). This is the recommended way to start using DrillSergeant.
There will be three separate downloads: Windows (x86 64-bit), Linux (x86 64-bit), and Linux (ARM 64-bit), dubbed win64, linux64, and linuxaarch64 respectively.
Once downloaded and extracted, you can move it to your `$PATH`.
Then, change directories to where you've cloned DrillSergeant:
```bash
cd path/to/DrillSergeant
```
#### Build
Then, to build a full release of DrillSergeant (you can change the runtime to whatever fits your platform. You can learn more about this [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog)):
Then, you can find the binary in the `publish/` directory. You can move this executable to somewhere in the `$PATH` or you make a new enviroment variable to be integrated into your `$PATH`.
