treeage 0.3.0

Lists contents of directories in a tree-like format with age metric indicated for each file

/’trēˌāj/

1. n. a process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority.

2. n. software that lists contents of directories in a tree-like format with age metric indicated for each file

treeage is typically used to shed some light on antiquated parts [1] of a codebase and identify candidates for a refactoring.

Install

treeage is written for Python 3.5+, install with pip via pip3 install treeage command.

Usage

Usage: treeage.py [OPTIONS] DIRECTORY

  Lists contents of directories in a tree-like format with age metric
  indicated for each file.

Options:
  --maxdepth LEVELS    Descend at most LEVELS (a non-negative integer) levels
                       of directories below the seed DIRECTORY
  -i, --include GLOB   List only files whose base name matches GLOB (using
                       wildcard matching)
  -e, --exclude GLOB   Exclude files whose base name matches GLOB (using
                       wildcard matching)
  --before DATE        List only files whose age is older than DATE
  --after DATE         List only files whose age is lower than DATE
  -v, --verbosity LVL  Either CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO or DEBUG
  --version            Show the version and exit.
  -h, --help           Show this message and exit.

  Examples:
  treeage --maxdepth 2 --before "01 jan 2018"../qifqif
  treeage --include "*.py" --after "3 month ago" .

Screenshot

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Footnotes

[1]

file age is computed by averaging last modification date of its lines