gitcal

A CLI tool for calendar visualization

Installation

cargo install gitcal --locked

Usage

Usage: gitcal [OPTIONS]

Options:
      --username <NAME>       GitHub username (defaults to token owner)
      --block                 Use block icons
      --half                  Use block icons without spaces
      --circle                Use circle icons
      --base <HEX>            Set base color
      --text <HEX>            Set text color
      --color0 <HEX>          Set color for no contributions
      --color1 <HEX>          Set color for first quartile
      --color2 <HEX>          Set color for second quartile
      --color3 <HEX>          Set color for third quartile
      --color4 <HEX>          Set color for fourth quartile
      --ytd                   Display the past year's worth of data
      --month                 Display the past month's worth of data
      --token <GITHUB_TOKEN>  GitHub PAT token (uses $GITHUB_TOKEN if not specified)
      --hide-days             Hide day-of-the-week string
      --hide-months           Hide months in header
  -h, --help                  Print help

GitHub Token

To use this, you need an API token for GitHub. This can be created by going to GitHub, then Settings > Developer Settings > Personal access tokens. Current advice from GitHub recommends making a fine-grained token. This token should be passed to gitcal via --token argument, or you can set the $GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.

Options

Display Modes

There are several unicode characters which can be used to display the calendar information. See the images below for examples of each:

(default)

--block

--circle

--half

Colors

Custom colors can be used by passing them as hex strings to the respective CLI arguments. For example, gitcal --base "#FFFFFF" will make the background color white.

gitcal --base "#eff1f5" --text "#4c4f69" --color0 "#7287fd" --color1 "#179299" --color2 "#df8e1d" --color3 "#e64553" --color4 "#8839ef"

Hiding Headers

The --hide-days and --hide-months arguments can be used to hide the respective day column and month row.

Time

By default, gitcal will display past 365 days of information. However, the --ytd and --month arguments can be used to instead use the year-to-date starting at January 1st or the days since the beginning of the month respectively.