Git Hardwork Analyzer

Not all commits are created equal. Some are quick typo fixes. Others represent hours of debugging, architectural refactoring, or solving genuinely hard problems.

But git treats them all the same. A 3-line commit and a 300-line commit look identical in the log. What if we could actually see which commits represented real effort?

Lines of code changed tells you almost nothing. A massive refactor that improves everything might touch 50 files. A gnarly bug fix might be 3 lines that took hours to figure out.

Not just counting changes—understanding them. Recognizing when someone wrestled with edge cases versus when they just renamed a variable.

The analyzer uses Claude to examine each commit's diff, message, and context. It scores commits based on complexity, not just size.

The results are surprisingly insightful. It catches refactoring commits that touched many files but made things simpler. It recognises when someone was wrestling with edge cases. It even notices when commits were likely AI-generated.

There's a CLI for quick analysis and a web dashboard for visualising trends across a repository.