auto-dr.md

Automating Daily Reports, because fuck it, really...

Each day at our company, developers are required to document their activities, painstakingly jotting down their daily work and future plans. A monotonous chore that I just really dislike.

So now, there's a scribe for that :

Code

const { execSync } = require("child_process");

// Get the current day and tomorrow's day
const currentDay = new Date().toLocaleDateString("en-US", { weekday: "long" });
const tomorrow = new Date();
tomorrow.setDate(tomorrow.getDate() + 1);
const nextDay = tomorrow.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { weekday: "long" });

// Get the current user from Git configuration
const currentUser = execSync("git config user.name").toString().trim();

// Set the start of the day
const startOfDay = `${currentDay}T00:00:00`;

// Display the current day
console.log(`*${currentDay}*`);

// Get the list of branches
const branches = execSync('git branch --format="%(refname:short)" --no-column')
  .toString()
  .trim()
  .split("\n");

// Iterate through each branch
branches.forEach((branch) => {
  // Get the commits made by the current user since the start of the day on the specific branch
  const commits = execSync(
    `git log --author="${currentUser}" --since="${startOfDay}" --pretty=format:'- %s' ${branch}`
  )
    .toString()
    .trim();

  // If there are commits, display them under the branch header
  if (commits) {
    console.log(`*Branch: ${branch}*`);
    console.log(commits);
    console.log();
  }
});

// Display tomorrow's day
console.log(`*${nextDay}*`);
console.log("-");