Can I filter the graph by specific date range?

[BittuChan]

Hi,
I'm generating a code review graph for our project team, but we have 3+ years of commit history. The graph is too cluttered with old data. Is there a way to filter the analysis to only show reviews from the last 6 months? Or specify a date range like --since 2024-01-01?
Didn't see any flags in the README for this.

[Shiven0504]

hii @BittuChan, I think there's no built-in date filtering in the tool currently. But you can work around it by filtering commits before running the analysis. If you're analyzing a local repo, you can use git to filter by date:
git log --since="6 months ago" --pretty=format:"%H" > recent_commits.txt

Then modify the tool to only process those commit SHAs. It's not ideal, but works for now.

[Shiven0504]

Alternatively, you could fork the repo and add a --since flag to the CLI. The GitHub API supports date filtering with since parameter, so it should be straightforward to implement. Let me know if it works for you!

[BittuChan]

@Shiven0504, thanks for the workaround! I ended up just creating a fresh clone with shallow history for the last year:
git clone --shallow-since="1 year ago" <repo-url>

[BittuChan]

Then ran the analysis on that. Graph is much cleaner now and loads faster too. Might as well look into submitting a PR for native date filtering if I get time. Thanks for the suggestion 🙏