v0.2.0

v0.2.0

Release Date: December 11, 2025
Tag: v0.2.0

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🔍 Overview

Git Intelligence v0.2.0 introduces AI-powered analysis capabilities through local Ollama integration, repository synchronization features, and enhanced analytics accuracy with intelligent file exclusion. This release significantly expands the analytical capabilities of the platform while maintaining privacy through local AI processing.

✨ Highlights

• AI-Powered Analysis with Ollama Integration

  • Complete Ollama settings management UI in Settings dialog
  • Connection testing functionality with real-time feedback
  • AI insights generation for all analytics views:
    • Developer Analytics insights
    • Codebase Health recommendations
    • Repository Evolution analysis
    • Bus Factor & Ownership insights
    • Social Network Analysis observations
    • Risk Analytics assessments
  • Configurable Ollama connection (host, port, model, timeout)
  • Settings persistence in database with localStorage caching
  • Graceful error handling for connection failures and timeouts
  • AI insights cached separately from analytics data for performance
  • Optional AI analysis toggle per analytics view
  • Comprehensive test coverage for Ollama service and settings management

• Repository Synchronization

  • New POST /repositories/:id/fetch endpoint for fetching latest changes
  • Automatic git fetch --all --prune and git pull for local repositories
  • Intelligent change detection via commit hash comparison
  • Automatic cache invalidation when repository changes are detected
  • UI components for fetching individual repositories or all repositories in a project
  • Enhanced ProjectsSidebar with "Fetch All" functionality for project-wide updates
  • Detailed feedback notifications showing fetch results and change status
  • Proper handling of repositories without upstream branches

• Enhanced Analytics Accuracy

  • File Exclusion Logic: Intelligent filtering to reduce false positives
    • Excludes package management files (package-lock.json, package.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml)
    • Excludes translation files (JSON, PO, POT, properties, XLIFF files in translation directories)
    • Excludes common translation file patterns (e.g., de.json, en.json, fr.json)
    • Applied to risk analytics, codebase health hotspots, and AI analysis prompts
    • More accurate identification of actual code hotspots and risk areas

• Infrastructure & Quality

  • Updated dependencies:
    • Vite 7.2.4 → 7.2.7
    • Prettier 3.6.2 → 3.7.4
    • Recharts 3.5.0 → 3.5.1
    • @vitest/coverage-v8 updates
    • GitHub Actions upload-artifact v4 → v5
  • Enhanced CI/CD workflows:
    • Consolidated test coverage uploads
    • Improved test coverage reporting
    • Branch restrictions for workflow execution
  • Comprehensive documentation updates:
    • OLLAMA_INTEGRATION_SPEC.md with complete feature specification
    • Updated AGENTS.md with Ollama integration details
  • Improved error handling for hash comparison (trailing newline fixes)
  • Enhanced validation for Ollama settings (host, port, model, timeout ranges)

v0.1.0

Release Date: November 28, 2025
Tag: v0.1.0
Commit: 2fdcd61dad6a263a2a2b10fd4977b97d1d426c9a

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🔍 Overview

Git Intelligence v0.1.0 is a significant enhancement release focused on improved user experience, better project management, and enhanced UI consistency. This release introduces dark mode support, project/repository ordering, improved repository management, and comprehensive cache control features.

✨ Highlights

• Repository Management Improvements

  • Refactored UploadRepoModal into a more flexible AddRepoModal component
  • Support for both ZIP file uploads and local folder paths in a unified interface
  • Enhanced form handling, file validation, and error management
  • Improved integration with the API for repository operations

• Project & Repository Organization

  • Added project and repository ordering functionality with drag-and-drop support
  • Introduced order fields in Project and Repository interfaces
  • New reorderProjects and reorderRepositories API endpoints
  • Enhanced ProjectsList component with UI controls for reordering
  • Database schema updated to support ordering with automatic migrations

• Developer Analytics Enhancements

  • Added total Lines of Code (LOC) display in Developer Analytics views
  • Enhanced cross-repository analytics with improved cache management
  • New clearCache function for manual cache clearing
  • Optional refresh parameter support in getCrossRepoDeveloperAnalytics API
  • Improved loading states and error handling across analytics components

• User Experience Improvements

  • Dark Mode Support: Full dark mode styling across all charts and components
    • Updated ActivityChart, AuthorList, DashboardView, ExtensionChart, LocChart, and SummaryCards
    • Improved tooltip styling for better visibility in both light and dark modes
    • Consistent text color adjustments throughout the application
  • Confirmation Dialogs: New ConfirmationDialog component for consistent user confirmations
    • Integrated into ProjectsSidebar, ProjectsView, and SettingsDialog
    • Replaced native browser confirm prompts with styled dialogs
    • Enhanced notification handling for deletion actions

• Cross-Repository Analytics Enhancements

  • Project name display in all cross-repository analytics views
  • Improved context and clarity for analytics across multiple repositories
  • Enhanced CrossRepoAnalyticsPortfolioView with project name and descriptions
  • Better user experience when analyzing project-wide metrics

• Infrastructure & Quality

  • New fileUtils module for folder management
  • Automatic cleanup of uploaded folders when projects/repositories are deleted
  • Comprehensive unit tests for new components and features
  • Improved error handling and validation throughout the application

v0.0.2

v0.0.2

Release Date: November 26, 2025
Tag: v0.0.2
Commit: 8b54a81ed5fcbd909d11c1d48ef63ca3ccbad1c5

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🔍 Overview

Git Intelligence v0.0.2 is a refinement release focused on technical debt analytics, risk analysis robustness, and improved UX consistency. It introduces a new Technical Debt Indicators view, strengthens backend test coverage, and streamlines several UI components.

✨ Highlights

• Technical Debt Indicators

  • New Technical Debt Indicators feature with dedicated backend analysis and API endpoint
  • Frontend UI components and charts to surface files and areas with elevated technical debt risk
  • Integration into the existing analytics navigation for a cohesive experience

• Risk & Portfolio Analytics

  • Added and refined unit tests for risk analytics functionality and shared risk utility functions
  • Introduced a Cross-Repository Portfolio Analytics view with corresponding tests to analyze risk and health across multiple repositories

• Infrastructure & Quality

  • Refactored JobQueue implementation and added comprehensive unit tests for more reliable background analysis execution
  • Expanded test coverage for technical debt indicators and risk analytics, improving overall backend reliability

• UX & UI Improvements

  • Refactored multiple components to use a shared RecalculateButton for consistent refresh interactions
  • Simplified NotificationItem close button rendering for a cleaner and more maintainable notification UI

v0.0.1

Release Notes - Git Intelligence v0.0.1

Release Date: November 26, 2025
Tag: v0.0.1
Commit: 35ac54efb724970872947efc418e8f194b503bbb

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🎉 Overview

Git Intelligence v0.0.1 is the initial release of a comprehensive full-stack web application for analyzing and visualizing Git repository statistics. This release provides deep insights into project activity, contributor performance, codebase health, and repository evolution through an intuitive dashboard interface.

✨ Key Features

Core Analytics

• Dashboard Overview: Key metrics including total commits, contributors, file counts, and activity patterns
• Activity Analysis: Visualize commit patterns by hour, day, month, and year
• Contributor Insights: Track top contributors with commit counts, percentages, and activity windows
• File Composition: Language distribution analysis via file extension charts
• Growth Tracking: Monitor Lines of Code (LOC) history over time

Advanced Analytics

Developer Analytics

• Extended contributor metrics (lines added/removed, net lines)
• Activity time windows (hour of day, day of week)
• Signed commits percentage
• Fix and revert commit ratios
• Code churn metrics
• Longitudinal patterns:
  • Author activity over time (weekly/monthly)
  • Onboarding curve (new contributors over time)
  • Dormancy detection (inactive contributors)

Codebase Health

• Hotspots: Identify most frequently changed files and directories
• Change Coupling: Detect files that change together
• Stability: Analyze file age and change frequency
• Complexity: Average diff sizes, largest diffs, most rewritten files
• Risky Files: Files with high change frequency and complexity
• Repository Hygiene: Overall codebase health metrics

Repository Evolution

• Commit frequency over time
• Release information (tags, dates, commit hashes)
• Growth curves (LOC and files over time)
• Change bursts (periods of high activity with refactor detection)
• Churn metrics (additions, deletions, net change)

Bus Factor & Ownership

• Single maintainer risk analysis
• Fragmentation detection (files with too many contributors)
• Owner churn tracking (files that changed primary maintainer)

Social Network Analysis

• Collaboration graphs (network of contributors)
• Knowledge silos detection
• Orphaned code identification

Risk Analytics

• Comprehensive risk assessment across repositories
• Risk scoring and prioritization

Cross-Repository Analytics

• Aggregated metrics across all repositories in a project
• Cross-repo collaboration patterns
• Repository clusters (repos worked on by same teams)
• Synchronization patterns (commits across repos on same dates)

Project Management

• Multi-Project Support: Organize repositories into projects
• Repository Upload: Upload ZIP archives of Git repositories for analysis (up to 100MB)
• Drag-and-Drop Support: Intuitive file upload interface
• Path-Based Analysis: Analyze local Git repositories by path
• Caching: Intelligent caching of analysis results for faster performance

🏗️ Technical Stack

Frontend

• Framework: React 19.2.0 with TypeScript 5.9.3
• Build Tool: Vite 7.2.4
• Routing: TanStack Router 1.139.6 (file-based routing)
• Styling: Tailwind CSS 4.1.17
• Charts: Recharts 3.5.0
• State Management: React Context API
• UI Components: Headless UI, Heroicons, Lucide React
• Tables: TanStack React Table 8.21.3

Backend

• Runtime: Node.js (v22+)
• Framework: Express 5.1.0
• Language: TypeScript 5.9.3
• Git Operations: simple-git 3.30.0
• Database: LowDB 7.0.1 (JSON-based with schema versioning)
• File Upload: multer 2.0.2
• ZIP Handling: adm-zip 0.5.16
• Testing: Vitest 4.0.14

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v22 or higher)
• npm or yarn
• Git

Setup

1. Clone the repository

   git clone <repository-url>
   cd git-intelligence
   git checkout v0.0.1

2. Install all dependencies

   npm run install:all

   This installs dependencies for the root, client, and server packages.

🚀 Usage

Development

Start both the frontend and backend concurrently:

npm run dev

• Backend: Runs on http://localhost:3001
• Frontend: Runs on http://localhost:5173

Production Build

# Build both frontend and backend
npm run build

# Start backend
cd server && npm start

Adding Repositories

1. Create a Project: Navigate to the Projects page and create a new project
2. Upload Repository:
   • Select a project
   • Upload a ZIP archive containing a Git repository (drag-and-drop supported)
   • The system will automatically extract and detect the repository
3. Add by Path:
   • Provide the absolute path to a local Git repository
   • The repository will be linked to your project

Viewing Analytics

• Navigate to different analytics views from the sidebar
• Select a repository to view single-repository analytics
• Select a project to view cross-repository analytics
• Use the refresh option to bypass cache and get fresh data

🧪 Testing

The backend includes comprehensive test coverage using Vitest:

# Run all tests
cd server && npm test

# Run tests in watch mode
cd server && npm run test:watch

# Generate coverage report
cd server && npm run test:coverage

📊 API Endpoints

Projects

• GET /projects - List all projects
• GET /projects/:id - Get project by ID
• POST /projects - Create project
• PUT /projects/:id - Update project
• DELETE /projects/:id - Delete project

Repositories

• GET /repositories - List repositories (optional ?projectId=<id> filter)
• GET /repositories/:id - Get repository by ID
• POST /repositories - Add repository
• DELETE /repositories/:id - Remove repository
• POST /upload - Upload ZIP archive

Analytics

• GET /stats?path=<repo-path> - Basic statistics
• GET /developer-analytics?path=<repo-path> - Developer analytics
• GET /codebase-health?path=<repo-path> - Codebase health
• GET /repository-evolution?path=<repo-path> - Repository evolution
• GET /bus-factor-and-ownership?path=<repo-path> - Bus factor analysis
• GET /social-network-analysis?path=<repo-path> - Social network analysis
• GET /risk-analytics?path=<repo-path> - Risk analytics
• Cross-repo variants available with ?projectId=<id> parameter

All analytics endpoints support ?refresh=true to bypass cache.

🔧 Configuration

Ports

• Backend: 3001 (configured in server/src/index.ts)
• Frontend: 5173 (Vite default)

Database

• Database file: server/db.json
• Automatic schema migrations from older versions
• Cache stored in database for faster subsequent analyses

File Upload

• Maximum file size: 100MB
• Supported format: ZIP archives containing Git repositories

📝 Changelog

v0.0.1 (November 26, 2025)

Initial Release Features

• ✅ Complete dashboard with overview metrics
• ✅ Developer analytics with longitudinal patterns
• ✅ Codebase health analysis (hotspots, coupling, stability, complexity)
• ✅ Repository evolution tracking (commits, releases, growth, bursts)
• ✅ Bus factor and ownership analysis
• ✅ Social network analysis
• ✅ Risk analytics
• ✅ Cross-repository analytics
• ✅ Multi-project support
• ✅ Repository upload via ZIP archives with drag-and-drop
• ✅ Path-based repository analysis
• ✅ Analysis result caching
• ✅ Dark mode support (system preference)
• ✅ Responsive design
• ✅ Comprehensive test coverage

Recent Improvements

• Enhanced change bursts display with increased max height
• Added Risky Files section to Codebase Health
• Added Repository Hygiene metrics
• Enhanced UploadProjectModal with drag-and-drop support
• Improved file validation for ZIP files
• Updated to support ZIP archives up to 100MB
• Streamlined UI for cross-repo analytics

⚠️ Known Limitations

• Local Only: Currently works only on local machines
• No Authentication: No user authentication or authorization system
• No Remote Cloning: Cannot clone repositories directly from remote URLs (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
• Cache Management: Cache must be manually cleared (no automatic expiration)
• Port Configuration: Ports are hardcoded (no environment variable configuration)
• Database: Uses JSON file-based database (LowDB) - not suitable for production at scale

🔮 Future Enhancements

Potential features for future releases:

• Environment variable configuration for ports/URLs
• Database migration from LowDB to proper database (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Authentication/authorization
• Real-time updates (WebSockets)
• Export functionality (PDF, CSV)
• More detailed commit analysis
• Branch visualization
• File change history
• Performance optimizations for large repositories
• Cache expiration/TTL for analysis results
• Frontend component testing
• API rate limiting
• Background job processing for large analyses
• Repository cloning from remote URLs (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Built with modern web technologies and designed to provide comprehensive insights into Git repository activity and health.

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For more information, see the README.md file.