🧠 Ask-Git: Git History Explorer with Local LLMs

Ask-Git is a powerful CLI tool that lets developers understand Git history using natural language. It wraps around Git commands and feeds relevant context to local LLMs (via Ollama) to generate human-readable explanations and summaries — all without uploading your code or commits to the cloud.

🚀 Features

Ask-Git is currently focused on the following capabilities:

✅ Implemented

• explain <file>
  Summarize recent changes made to a specific file.
  This combines recent commits, diffs, and blame information to explain how a file evolved.

• summary --since <date> --until <date> [--author <name>]
  Summarize commit activity in a date range (optionally filtered by author).
  Ideal for understanding what happened during a sprint or review period.

🚧 In Progress

• why "<question>"
  Ask why a feature, line, or change was made (coming soon).

• pr-summary
  Generate a pull-request-style summary from recent commits (coming soon).

🛠️ Installation

Ask-Git is a Python CLI tool. Make sure you have Python 3.8+ installed.

You can install it directly from PyPI:

pip install ask-git

Or clone and install from source:

git clone https://github.com/ARJ2211/ask-git.git
cd ask-git
pip install -e .

🧠 Ollama Setup

You need Ollama running locally to use the LLM features.

Install and start Ollama:

ollama serve

Pull a supported model (e.g., CodeLlama):

ollama pull codellama

Make sure it's accessible at http://localhost:11434.

🧾 Usage

Once installed, you can run the tool via the ask-git command:

🔍 Summarize Git Activity

ask-git summary --since 2024-04-01 --until 2024-04-15

Optional filter by author:

ask-git summary --since 2024-04-01 --until 2024-04-15 --author "Alice"

📄 Explain a File's History

ask-git explain path/to/your/file.py

This will pull recent changes to the file and ask the LLM to describe what happened.

⚙️ How It Works

• Uses GitPython and subprocess to gather git log, diff, and blame context.
• Builds custom prompts for the LLM to explain or summarize changes.
• Talks to Ollama via HTTP API for local LLM queries (e.g., Mistral, CodeLlama).
• Outputs explanations and summaries directly to your terminal using rich.

🧪 Development Status

This project is still evolving. Contributions are welcome!

• explain and summary are stable
• why and pr-summary are under active development

📩 Contact

Questions or suggestions?
Check out askaayush.com or raise an issue on GitHub.