ghx provides an alternative to GitHub’s UI
for viewing commit logs between git tags.
An unauthenticated public version of
ghx’s web interface is running at https://ghx.handytools.store.
🤔 Why does this exist?
I often need to view commit logs between two git tags for GitHub hosted
repositories. While GitHub’s UI allows comparing refs, doing it for git tags is
a bit tedious. Additionally, comparing tags for multiple repositories involves a
lot of clicks. To simplify this process, I built ghx.
Everything that ghx does can be achieved locally using git; the goal is to
access commit logs quickly without having to clone a repository, or pull
changes, or run git tag to discover tags.
⚡️ Usage
$ ghx serve -h
Serve ghx's web interface
Usage: ghx serve [OPTIONS]
Options:
-o, --owner <STRING> Owner to show results for
-t, --owner-type <STRING> Owner type [default: user] [possible values: user, org]
-T, --theme <STRING> Theme to use [default: dark] [possible values: light, dark]
-p, --port <INTEGER> Port to use
-s, --skip-opening Whether to skip opening the front-end in the browser
-h, --help Print help (see more with '--help')
🔑 Authentication
You can have ghx make authenticated calls to GitHub on your behalf in either
of two ways:
- Have an authenticated instance of gh available
in your
PATH(recommended). - Provide a valid Github token via the environment variable
GH_TOKEN