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It's 4202 now, and there are countless tools available to view Git commit history, including CLI (just git history) and GUI (Github Desktop).

This brings me to a ⭐ treasure project I discovered, pomber/git-history is an online tool that can present the change history of repository files quickly and clearly in an animated way.

Want to give it a try? It's very simple:

1. Go to a file in GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
2. Replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz
3. And that's it, use the left and right arrow keys to view the changes in animated form

Compared to the methods like Blame we usually use, this tool provides a faster and more intuitive way to check how past commits have affected files.

The author also provides bookmarks and browser extensions for quick use:

/* Bookmark Original: https://github.com/pomber/git-history?tab=readme-ov-file#browsers */
javascript: (function() {
  var url = window.location.href;
  var regEx = /^(https?\:\/\/)(www\.)?(github|gitlab|bitbucket)\.(com|org)\/(.*)$/i;
  if (regEx.test(url)) {
    url = url.replace(regEx, "$1$3.githistory.xyz/$5");
    window.open(url, "_blank");
  } else {
    alert("Not a Git File URL");
  }
})();

You can download the browser extension version here, and you can even download the CLI version for local use here.

Well, that's the treasure project I recently discovered, thank you for reading, see you next time!