bigboard

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Big Board

A cyberpunk-themed TUI for assessing contributor volumes across git repositories. Inspired by Hiro Protagonist's Big Board from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

Install

From Source

go install github.com/richhaase/bigboard/cmd/bigboard@latest

Usage

# Analyze current directory
bigboard

# Analyze specific repos
bigboard ~/src/repo1 ~/src/repo2

# Scan a directory for repos (one level deep)
bigboard ~/src/

# Set initial sort column
bigboard --sort commits ~/src/

# Exclude specific repos
bigboard --exclude vendor-lib ~/src/

Controls

Key	Action
↑/↓ j/k	Navigate rows
←/→ h/l	Cycle time range (1d / 7d / 14d / 30d / 90d / 1y / all)
Enter	Drill into selected contributor
Esc	Back / Quit
s	Cycle sort column
r	Open repo inclusion/exclusion overlay
q	Quit

Features

• ASCII art banner with vertical color gradient
• Gradient impact bars with trailing glow effect
• Gold/silver/bronze rank styling for top 3 contributors
• Per-contributor drill-down with repo breakdown and activity timeline
• Interactive repo inclusion/exclusion overlay
• Time range filtering (1d through all-time)
• Git worktree detection (automatically skipped during repo discovery)

License

MIT