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Git Quality Check

v0.1.1

Git Quality Check

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Git Quality Check

Simple tool to check quality of git commits and tree

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Git Quality Check

              
  uses: gcattan/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in gcattan/git-quality-check

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git-quality-check

Simple tool to check quality of git commits, and build indicators on it. Four estimation are performed:

  • the percent of commits containg a list of prohibited words;
  • the percent of commits related to testing;
  • the percent of branches with last commit having more than 2 months old;
  • the percent of coupled branches. A branch is coupled to another branch if it is contained in this other branch history (git branch --contains...). When there is more than 10 branches, the program randomly select 10 branches among all branches plus the branches passed through the mainBranches input.

The overall score returned as an output is a combination of these scores. The closer to 100%, the higher the quality.

Examples

Place the following example in your .github/workflows repository (in a file called test-action.yml) for example:

name: Test Action

on: [push]

jobs:
  build-linux:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        fetch-depth: 0
    - name: Git Quality Check
      id: git-quality-check
      uses: gcattan/[email protected]
      with:
        badWords: WIP, todo
        mainBranches: origin/master, origin/develop, origin/main
    - name: Check outputs
      run: |
        test "${{ steps.git-quality-check.outputs.score }}" != ""

The example above will checkout and run git-quality-check on your repo.

Description of inputs

Field Descrition
badWords A list of words that should be avoided in a commit message.
mainBranches Coupling of other branches with these main branches will be always checked.

Description of output

Field Descrition
score The overall score for your repository. It takes into account the percent of "bad" commits, commits related to testing, old branches and coupling.

Adding a badge to your README

You may find convenient to add a badge on your readme to display the score obtained with git quality check. This is a two steps process:

  1. Add https://github.com/RubbaBoy/BYOB action at the end of your test-action.yml file as follows:
- name: Create badge
      uses: RubbaBoy/[email protected]
      with:
        NAME: score
        LABEL: 'Git Quality Score'
        STATUS: ${{ steps.git-quality-check.outputs.score }}
        COLOR: 00EEFF
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

You can find the complete example of test-action.yml here.

  1. Add this line to your README:

<img type="image/svg" src="https://byob.yarr.is/<your github account>/<your project>/score"/>

Do not forget to replace <you github account> and <your project> in the above!!