Here's the command to generate these two punch cards, comparing commit activity in the past week on branch A to commit activity in the past week on branch B:
ruby timecard.rb . branch_a a && ruby timecard.rb . branch_b b(Names changed, of course, but this command produces two pngs,
a.png and b.png, and they show you the commits on branch_a and branch_b, respectively.)Here's the code for it. I found some good code and hacked a few argument vector calls into it. (Comments in the gist can direct you to the original.) Command-line args control everything except the date of the earliest commit to consider. That's hard-coded: Monday the 16th at 3am.
EARLY_MONDAY = 1258370000If you fork this and add the ability to specify dates in a cleaner way, ping me, I think that would make this very handy.
Update: Gavin Stark forked and improved:
Thanks, this is really handy. I wrote something similar to parse my company's mail log to generate a punch card of when people check mail. VERY telling for some employees. ;-)
I added a few more features and use the chronic gem for date parsing:
http://gist.github.com/246931
Only real problem left is that the google chart API seems to barf if you have too many points on the graph. You get a 414 URI too large error if the URL is over 2000 or so bytes. I guess google giveth and taketh away.
Enjoy.
