htop for Your Git History

You clone a repo you've never seen before and you want to understand it. Not the code, not yet. The shape of the project. Who's been working on it? How often? Is it one person pushing daily or three people who show up once a month? Are there stale branches? When was the last release? What files change the most? Git has answers to all of this, scattered across a dozen commands. git log --format with the right incantation gives you commit frequency. git shortlog -sn gives you contributor rankings. git branch -v shows branches but not staleness. git tag gives you release names but not cadence. None of it is visual. None of it is fast. And none of it lives in one place. gittop puts it in one place. What Is gittop? gittop is a terminal UI for git repository statistics, built in Go by hjr265 (Mahmud Ridwan). You run gittop in a repo and it scans the commit history, then drops you into a seven-tab dashboard: Summary, Activity, Contributors, Branches, Files, Releases, and Commits