ghx provides an alternative to GitHub's UI for viewing commit logs between git tags.

I often need to view commit logs between two git tags for GitHub hosted repositories. While GitHub's UI allows comparing refs, doing it for git tags is a bit tedious. Additionally, comparing tags for multiple repositories involves a lot of clicks. To simplify this process, I built ghx.

Everything that ghx does can be achieved locally using git; the goal is to access commit logs quickly without having to clone a repository, or pull changes, or run git tag to discover tags.

$ ghx serve -h
Serve ghx's web interface

Usage: ghx serve [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -o, --owner <STRING>       Owner to show results for
  -t, --owner-type <STRING>  Owner type [default: user] [possible values: user, org]
  -T, --theme <STRING>       Theme to use [default: dark] [possible values: light, dark]
  -p, --port <INTEGER>       Port to use
  -s, --skip-opening         Whether to skip opening the front-end in the browser
  -h, --help                 Print help (see more with '--help')

You can have ghx make authenticated calls to GitHub on your behalf in either of two ways:

• Have an authenticated instance of gh available in your PATH (recommended).
• Provide a valid Github token via the environment variable GH_TOKEN