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Making git clearer since 2020.

[GitClear @gitclear]

This marks the first week of the Dev Highlights roundup providing a contextualized summary of how much programming got done – optimized for forwarding to the boss for recognition. 📈

[Bill Harding @williambharding]

An encouraging start to the week, thanks for talkin' me up, @gitclear! 🧑‍💻

Too bad you can't market for 💩

[GitClear @gitclear]

@dhh does this look useful to you?

I.e., do you have contexts where you seek to understand incoming commits from many LLM-fueled contributors in many repos, at a glance?

(As of this month, it works offline/client-based, so analyzed code never on our servers)

[GitClear @gitclear]

Today was the day that we taught Commit Activity Browser how to label a group of commits.

As always, drag to see historical projects, or click a group to see its diff.

Diff viewer now shows which LLM authored each line, and allows an agent to answer reviewer Qs. Video soon

[GitClear @gitclear]

Awesome use case description a longtime GitClear customer. If Twitter still let people see posts with links, you could visit https://t.co/wrxx8YXbv2 to read the English version and learn a lot about what it's like to use GitClear

[na0x2c6 @na0x2c6]

最近 AI の利用を ROI で説明したい、という声をちらほら聞きます。
そこで GitClear という最高のサービスを紹介したいです。日本だと全然利用事例を聞きませんが…

コード生産性をデータドリブンに分析しやすいサービスで
最近 AI ROI の観点で分析する機能が増えてきました。

[GitClear @gitclear]

Fwiw Diff Delta has been devaluing additions to ~worthless in past few weeks, this graph is net of that

[Bill Harding @williambharding]

Diff Delta (@gitclear metric I've iterated on for ~10 years) is detecting a much greater disturbance from AI than "Commit Count" since Dec 2025.

"Commit mass increase" in Prompt-to-Production era could be an interesting research topic...?

[GitClear @gitclear]

Research @ https://t.co/zYIIy67pw9

What do you estimate the real productivity gain is so far? We have a guess, but curious if anyone else dares quantify theirs first? 🍿

[GitClear @gitclear]

Today we release research showing the aggregated baseline of AI use by year. Link to research in reply.

tl;dr As of 2025, close to 90% of professional devs consider themselves "regular AI users at work." Closer to 50% of say they use AI daily.

[GitClear @gitclear]

Our favorite @amplenote slash shortcut for the week: `draw` to quickly sketch pictures into notes that can improve our help documentation

[GitClear @gitclear]

Anyone with a podcast/YT channel want to talk what AI is doing to code maintainability? Our updated research is wrapping up, set for release next week. https://t.co/tDx13JnGbx

[GitClear @gitclear]

Quality-of-life upgrade for diff viewers live as of yesterday: it's now possible to toggle between "Unified" and "Split" on a per file basis, no page reload required. ✨

[GitClear @gitclear]

Announcement on automated changelogs: https://t.co/EwWvXlDCJ2
Docs for enabling Slack for critical notifications: https://t.co/Drt0KUGIds

[GitClear @gitclear]

Dual releases for today:
1. Our Automatic Changelog Generator skips the chore of scouring git history to compile a list of what was worked on lately
2. Select notifications can now be sent to Slack (+ image & actionable link)
Links to learn more in reply. 🚀

[GitClear @gitclear]

"Coding on Copilot II" data gathering on code quality officially underway. So far, the code quality data for code changes authored in 2024 looking much worse than our projections from 11 months ago. 😬

[GitClear @gitclear]

Our presentation on "No-Interrupt Updates" as part of improving Developer Experience goes live as part of #GitKon2024 today via @GitKraken. Register at https://t.co/pCkjBX2CnE to watch its imminent debut. ✨

[GitClear @gitclear]

And here's the 3 minute explanation of how Snap Changelogs work: https://t.co/P2LVf6sLpp

[GitClear @gitclear]

This weekend we released a video showing how our new Snap Changelogs are built to help #githubsponsors #opensource. Maybe something @github would like to offer to their new Sponsors? https://t.co/tA4ci6P790

[GitClear @gitclear]

Stack Overflow's latest feature blog, on our pull request research. Did you know GitHub's (and everyone else's) default PR/diffing tool was born when Michael Jackson and Madonna topped the charts? https://t.co/5UdUgR48wu

[GitClear @gitclear]

We're doing a quick database restart for maintenance, back online in ~20 minutes.

[Bill Harding @williambharding]

2-3x per year I catch "programming fever" and get sucked into a 10-15 day hole where all my brain has cycles for is finishing a hard dev problem. Esp when the hard problem doesn't have a visual component, @gitclear's commit graph affirms progress, and incrementally motivates.

[GitClear @gitclear]

It might take a few days until we have time to take screenshots and post documentation, but that is coming in the next week.

[GitClear @gitclear]

Incremental file diffs for PRs now live 🚀

This means that when you review a PR, and subsequent work is committed, you will only see the changes to each file since you last reviewed. You can switch to see all changes if desired.

Weirdly, we might be first to offer this?