grunt-git-humans

A plugin to get Git contributors and create a humans text file. More information about this file and how to create one for knowing whom has contributed to a site, can be found at humanstxt.org.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-git-humans --save-dev

One the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-git-humans');

The "git_humans" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named git_humans to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig(). The task will respect the git mailmap file in your root, if you decide to use one.

grunt.initConfig({
  git_humans: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
  },
})

Options

options.path

Type: String Default value: './humans.txt'

The default path and filename for the file.

options.branch

Type: String Default value: 'master'

A string value that is used to determine what branch the list will be used for the query.

options.byCommits

Type: Boolean Default value: false

A boolean value that allows you to return the list ordered by number of commits.

options.chronologically

Type: Boolean Default value: false

A boolean value that allows you to return the list ordered by latest commits.

options.mailmap

Type: Boolean Default value: false

A boolean value that allows you to use the mailmap file to clean up commit names/emails. This requires git >= 1.8

options.banner

Type: String Default value: Empty String

This string will be prepended to the output. Template strings (e.g. <%= config.value %> can be used and are encouraged. If left empty, will add last updated dated.

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the default options are used. No reason to pass anything to create the file at root from the master branch.

grunt.initConfig({
  git_humans: {
    options: {},
  },
})

Custom Options

If you'd like to create the file as a different name for other purposes, or with alternate ordering options then you can do add those easily.

grunt.initConfig({
  git_humans: {
    options: {
      path: 'contributors/custom.txt',
      branch: 'master',
      byCommits: true
    },
  },
})

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 2014-03-14   v0.1.0 First release to start initial use on projects

Todo

• Add more detailed tests (e.g., testing for git and log results)