Git, diffs and hotspots

–git: uncommitted changes

sprout --git -L 2

Mark	Meaning
M	Modified
A	Added (staged)
D	Deleted, shown where the file used to be
R	Renamed
?	Untracked
U	Merge conflict

Folders show (N changed), so changes stay visible even when -L collapses a folder. The header shows the current branch. It works from any subdirectory of a repository.

–diff: a pull request as a tree

sprout --diff main...HEAD         # what this branch changed since it forked
sprout --diff HEAD~3              # the last three commits plus uncommitted changes
sprout --diff v1.0..v1.1 -L 2     # between tags, collapsed to depth 2

. main...HEAD
├── internal/  (4 changed)  +156 -0
│   └── tiles/  (4 changed)  +156 -0
│       ├── cache.go  M  +38 -0
│       ├── prefetch.go  A  +64 -0
│       └── render.go  M  +12 -0
└── web/  (6 changed)  +187 -5

11 files changed, +352 -5

It shows only the changed paths, with M A D R marks and +/- line counts. Folders show how many files changed below them, plus their totals, and -L collapses deeper folders into those totals.

Any revision git accepts works. A value starting with - is refused, so it can’t be read as a git option. With --json it feeds a PR bot directly.

–churn: hotspots

sprout --churn
sprout --churn --since '90 days ago'
sprout --churn --git -L 2

Each path shows the number of commits that touched it, with a bar. Files are scaled against the busiest file, and folders against the busiest folder. High counts turn yellow, then red. --since takes any date git understands, which also keeps very large histories quick.