gitinspectorgui 0.4.4

A CLI and GUI tool for numerical and blame analysis of git repositories.

Features

The Python gitinspectorgui tool facilitates detailed quantitative analysis of the contribution of each author to selected repositories.

• Html and Excel backends provide detailed Git statistics:

  • per author

  • per author subdivided by file

  • per file subdivided by author

  • per file

  Output also provides detailed blame information per file. Output lines are colored by author, allowing for easy visual inspection and tracking of author contributions.

• The GUI and CLI interface have the same options and functionality.

  Executable apps with a GUI interface are available for macOS and Windows. Additionally, a Python package can be installed from PyPI. This solution works on all platforms that support Python, including Linux.

Installation of GitinspectorGUI for Windows

Download one of the two stand-alone executables for Windows from the releases page. The two versions are as follows, where x.x.x is the version number:

• win-gitinspectorgui-setup-x.x.x-Arm.exe

• win-gitinspectorgui-setup-x.x.x-Intel.exe

Select the Arm version for modern systems with a Snapdragon processor and the Intel version for systems with a traditional Intel processor. When you are not sure, you probably have an Intel processor. Note that the Intel version also executes on Arm processors, although much slower because it uses an emulation mode. The Arm version, on the other hand, does not execute on Intel processors.

Execute the downloaded setup file, and follow the on-screen installation instructions. The GitinspectorGUI executable will be available under the program group GitinspectorGUI.

Installation of GitinspectorGUI for macOS

Installation of Git for macOS

The GitinspectorGUI.app app requires Git to be present on macOS. There are multiple ways to install Git for macOS, but they all require the command line. The easiest way to do this is by using the Miniconda, Anaconda, Homebrew or MacPorts package manager:

Package Manager	Installation Command
Conda	conda install git
Homebrew	brew install git
MacPorts	sudo port install git

If you do not use a package manager, Git can be installed as part of the XCode Command Line Tools via:

xcode-select --install

This does not install the (extremely big) complete XCode IDE, and takes “only” about 1GB.

Installation of the GitinspectorGUI app

Download the appropriate dmg file for your hardware. There are two versions for macOS, where x.x.x is the version number:

• GitinspectorGUI-x.x.x-AppleSilicon.dmg

• GitinspectorGUI-x.x.x-Intel.dmg

The Apple silicon version is for the new MacBooks with Apple silicon: in 2025, the M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5 versions. The Intel version is for the old Intel MacBooks from 2021 or earlier.

Open the downloaded dmg file by double clicking. This opens a window with the GitinspectorGUI app and a link to the Applications folder. Drag the GitinspectorGUI icon onto the Applications folder, so that the app is copied into this folder. You can then open the GitinspectorGUI app from the Applications folder.

The first time you open the GitinspectorGUI app, you will get an error message saying either “GitinspectorGUI” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software or “GitinspectorGUI” can’t be opened because it was not downloaded from the App store. Dismiss the popup by clicking OK. Go to Apple menu > System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then click tab General. Under Allow apps downloaded from: you should see in light grey two tick boxes: one for App Store and one for App Store and identified developers. Below that, you should see an additional line: “GitinspectorGUI.app” was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer, and after that, a button Open Anyway. Clicking that button will allow the GitinspectorGUI app to be executed.

Installation of GitinspectorGUI for Linux

We do not yet have binary versions of the GUI for Linux. Currently, for Linux only the CLI version is available, via PyPI, but the GUI can be started from the CLI: python -m gigui -g.

Installation of the GitinspectorGUI CLI for Windows, macOS and Linux

Installation of Git

The CLI version requires Git to be available on your system.

• For Windows, installing the GUI will automatically install Git, which can then also be used for the CLI version.

• On macOS, if you follow the installation instructions for the GUI, the installed Git can also be used by the CLI version. See Installation of Git for macOS.

• On Linux, use the package manager of your distribution to install git.

Installation of the CLI via existing versions of Python and pip

If you already have a working Python installation with pip, you can install the GitinspectorGUI CLI from PyPI via:

pip install gitinspectorgui

You can then display the gitinspectorgui help info by executing:

python -m gigui -h

Note that the program name is gitinspectorgui in PyPI, but the name of the actually installed Python package is the abbreviated form gigui.

Installation of the CLI via the UV Python package manager

If you do not already have operational versions of Python and pip, we recommend using the advanced and user-friendly new Python package manager uv to install GitinspectorGUI. See the uv website for installation instructions.

Once you have installed uv, you can run the GitinspectorGUI CLI via:

uvx gitinspectorgui

UV will automatically install Python if it is not already available on your system. It will also automatically download and cache the latest gitinspectorgui version and execute it. When a new version of gitinspectorgui is released, all you need to do is execute:

uvx gitinspectorgui@latest

This will download, cache and execute the latest gitinspectorgui version. Subsequent invocations of uvx gitinspectorgui will then use this new gitinspectorgui version.

Using the GitinspectorGUI CLI via UV

Command	Description
uvx gitinspectorgui	Show the help info.
uvx gitinspectorgui -h	Show the help info.
uvx gitinspectorgui -g	Open the GUI.
uvx gitinspectorgui -r repodir	Run the program on the repodir repository and show the result in the default system browser.

Documentation

Extensive online documentation can be found at the GitinspectorGUI Read the Docs website.

Author

• Bert van Beek

Contributors

• Jingjing Wang

• Albert Hofkamp