Summary
You may already know that checking a project’s status before you clone it with git is a good idea, but did you know there’s a convenient and attractive way of showing those stats right in your terminal? Meet Onefetch.
What Is Onefetch?
Neofetch may have been discontinued, but it still inspires imitators and similar tools.Onefetchis a project summarizer, featuring ASCII art, a language breakdown, contributor info, and other details. Here’s an example showing onefetch running against its own repository:
The tool works with any git repository and generates output consisting of two parts:
How Do I Use Onefetch?
you may download a binary fromOnefetch’s releases pagefor Linux, macOS, and Windows. There are also packages for various managers including Homebrew, pacman, and snap. Check out thefull installation pagefor more details.
Basic Use of Onefetch
Once you’ve installed it, run onefetch directly from a repository’s root directory:
Or by passing a repository path to the command:
Onefetch makes heavy use of color-coded output, so you won’t get good results piping it to other commands or redirecting it to a file.
Advanced Use of Onefetch
If you’re not a fan of the ASCII art that renders the main logo, you can hide it altogether with the –no-art option:
There are some other nice visual settings you can use to tweak the output, including:
In addition, you can configure the length of certain fields, like Authors, and turn off any that you don’t want to see using -d. Here’s a Go project with a heavily customized summary using the following command:
Onefetch is a simple command that’s easy to install and use. It’s great to showcase your own projects or to quickly remind yourself what that project lingering on your hard drive is all about.
