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Show HN: Personal Time Tracking with Git


Tracking time worked is unsexy at best, intrusive micro-management at worst. But I think understanding where time is spent lets individuals drive velocity through better choices. We can do this automatically with git hooks.

Knowing how much time is spent changing code in component x, lets us reason about entropy in the system. It's taken a lot of trial and error to find a measure that feels a genuine reflection of time spent 'writing code'. The push git hook will read this commit message and figure out the oldest time from all the time_branch_created lines.

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