gitfetch

Tracks which of your repos you've been neglecting. Like neofetch, but for commit and release decay.

Install

Go 1.26+, Mage, or plain go build.

git clone https://github.com/jgabor/gitfetch
cd gitfetch
mage install

Usage

gitfetch                  # dashboard from cache (instant)
gitfetch refresh          # rescan, update cache, print
gitfetch refresh --author "jgabor" --remote "github"
gitfetch tui              # interactive repo manager
gitfetch --verbose        # show headers and color legend

Command
gitfetch	Reads cache, prints dashboard, exits. No git subprocesses, sub-500ms, .bashrc-safe.
gitfetch refresh	Runs git log and git for-each-ref on every tracked repo. Writes results to cache.
gitfetch tui	Bubbletea TUI with vim keys. Add/remove repos, trigger rescans, multi-repo discover.

Configuration

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gitfetch/config.toml, auto-created on first run:

repos = []
refresh_every = 0    # auto-rescan every N invocations (0 = never)

[display]
color = "auto"       # auto, always, never
width = 0            # max width (0 = auto-detect terminal)

Populate repos via gitfetch tui (a to add) or by editing the file. Paths support ~/.

Decay dashboard

One bar per repo showing commit freshness. Tag freshness colors the Version column text — green, yellow, orange, or red depending on how long since the last release.

Tier	Threshold	Bar
fresh	< 10 days	Green
stale	< 90 days	Yellow
decayed	< 180 days	Orange
dead	>= 180 days	Red

Gradient bars use per-character Lab-color-space interpolation (go-colorful, lipgloss). It's overkill for a terminal tool and I'm fine with that.

Internals

No daemon. No database. No network. Scanner calls git log --format=%ci -1 and git for-each-ref --sort=-creatordate, writes JSON to $XDG_DATA_HOME/gitfetch/cache.json. Everything else reads cache. Always instant.

License

MIT