Git Time Machine

http://time-machine.herokuapp.com/

Time machine for your files on github! An easier way to view the history of a single file.

Useful for remembering how that constantly evolving method used to work or finding that line you deleted weeks ago but did end up needing afterall.

Requests are made directly from the client to the Github API using backbone.js, and are cached in local storage for maximum speed. Only a single file node server is required for authentication (thanks @prose!)

TODO

• Highlight changed lines
• Browserify vis.js
• Compress js
• Extensions for other browsers

Running locally

• Clone this repo
• Run gulp build
• Set environment variables below
• Start server and watch files by running gulp
• Change chrome extension URL at the bottom of time_machine_button.js to your url
• Enable dev mode for chrome extensions and load the folder
• Go to github file view and enjoy your new Time Machine button!

ENV

You'll need these environment variables to run the node server. Create an application on github to get OAUTH_CLIENT_ID and OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET. Create an application on github here

OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=XXXXXXXXXXXXX
OAUTH_HOST=github.com
OAUTH_PORT=443
OAUTH_PATH=/login/oauth/access_token
OAUTH_METHOD=POST