NAME

git-codeowners - A tool for managing CODEOWNERS files

VERSION

version 0.51

SYNOPSIS

git-codeowners [--version|--help|--manual]

git-codeowners [show] [--format FORMAT] [--owner OWNER]...
               [--pattern PATTERN]... [--[no-]patterns]
               [--project PROJECT]... [--[no-]projects] [PATH...]

git-codeowners owners [--format FORMAT] [--pattern PATTERN]

git-codeowners patterns [--format FORMAT] [--owner OWNER]

git-codeowners create|update [REPO_DIRPATH|CODEOWNERS_FILEPATH]

# enable bash shell completion
eval "$(git-codeowners --shell-completion)"

DESCRIPTION

git-codeowners is yet another CLI tool for managing CODEOWNERS files in git repos. In particular, it can be used to quickly find out who owns a particular file in a monorepo (or monolith).

THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL! The interface of this tool and its modules will probably change as I field test some things. Feedback welcome.

INSTALL

There are several ways to install git-codeowners to your system.

from CPAN

You can install git-codeowners using cpanm:

cpanm App::Codeowners

from GitHub

You can also choose to download git-codeowners as a self-contained executable:

curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chazmcgarvey/git-codeowners/solo/git-codeowners
chmod +x git-codeowners

To hack on the code, clone the repo instead:

git clone https://github.com/chazmcgarvey/git-codeowners.git
cd git-codeowners
make bootstrap      # installs dependencies; requires cpanm

OPTIONS

--version

Print the program name and version to STDOUT, and exit.

Alias: -v

--help

Print the synopsis to STDOUT, and exit.

Alias: -h

You can also use --manual to print the full documentation.

--color

Enable colorized output.

Color is ON by default on terminals; use --no-color to disable. Some environment variables may also alter the behavior of colorizing output:

  • NO_COLOR - Set to disable color (same as --no-color).

  • COLOR_DEPTH - Set the number of supportable colors (e.g. 0, 16, 256, 16777216).

--format

Specify the output format to use. See "FORMAT".

Alias: -f

--shell-completion

eval "$(git-codeowners --shell-completion)"

Print shell code to enable completion to STDOUT, and exit.

Does not yet support Zsh...

COMMANDS

show

git-codeowners [show] [--format FORMAT] [--owner OWNER]...
               [--pattern PATTERN]... [--[no-]patterns]
               [--project PROJECT]... [--[no-]projects] [PATH...]
               [--[no-]expand-aliases]

Show owners of one or more files in a repo.

If --owner, --project, --pattern are set, only show files with matching criteria. These can be repeated.

Use --patterns to also show the matching pattern associated with each file.

By default the output might show associated projects if the CODEOWNERS file defines them. You can control this by explicitly using --projects or --no-projects to always show or always hide defined projects, respectively.

Use --expand-aliases to show owners that are group aliases defined in the CODEOWNERS file as their aliased owners.

owners

git-codeowners owners [--format FORMAT] [--pattern PATTERN]

List all owners defined in the CODEOWNERS file.

patterns

git-codeowners patterns [--format FORMAT] [--owner OWNER]

List all patterns defined in the CODEOWNERS file.

create

git-codeowners create [REPO_DIRPATH|CODEOWNERS_FILEPATH]

Create a new CODEOWNERS file for a specified repo (or current directory).

update

git-codeowners update [REPO_DIRPATH|CODEOWNERS_FILEPATH]

Update the "unowned" list of an existing CODEOWNERS file for a specified repo (or current directory).

FORMAT

The --format argument can be one of:

Format string

You can specify a custom format using printf-like format sequences. These are the items that can be substituted:

  • %F - Filename

  • %O - Owner or owners

  • %P - Project

  • %T - Pattern

  • %n - newline

  • %t - tab

  • %% - percent sign

The syntax also allows padding and some filters. Examples:

git-codeowners show -f ' * %-50F %O'                # default for "show"
git-codeowners show -f '%{quote}F,%{quote}O'        # ad hoc CSV
git-codeowners patterns -f '--> %{color:0c0}T'      # whatever...

Available filters:

  • quote - Quote the replacement string.

  • color:FFFFFF - Colorize the replacement string (if color is ON).

  • nocolor - Do not colorize replacement string.

Format table

Table formatting can be done by one of several different modules, each with its own features and bugs. The default module is Text::Table::Tiny, but this can be overridden using the PERL_TEXT_TABLE environment variable if desired, like this:

PERL_TEXT_TABLE=Text::Table::HTML git-codeowners -f table

The list of available modules is at "@BACKENDS" in Text::Table::Any.

ENVIRONMENT

If you set GIT_CODEOWNERS_ALIASES in the environment to a true value, the parser will parse group aliases which are supported by some applications.

CAVEATS

  • Some commands require git (at least version 1.8.5).

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/chazmcgarvey/git-codeowners/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

Charles McGarvey <chazmcgarvey@brokenzipper.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Charles McGarvey.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.