Formatting breaks when using `watch`

[ionicabizau]

Formatting breaks when using `watch`

[IonicaBizau]

This is not a bug but it is the intended behavior.

watch doesn't allow colors by default, however watch --color should do it. It didn't worked properly for me (maybe it doesn't allow 256 colors?), and that's why I used the following workaround:

while true; do clear; git-stats; sleep 2; done

(modify 2 in the number of seconds of the interval)

Give me feedback if this worked.

[jonalmeida]

watch --color did indeed show the stats but you can't see the colors which makes all "days" look the same (another screenshot below). The while-loop method causes a flash at every interval when refreshing but it does still work.

Cool stuff regardless!

[IonicaBizau]

OK, you should be able to do this with the regarde tool, which I have just published:

$ npm install -g regarde
$ regarde 'git-stats' # 1 second interval
$ regarde 'git-stats' -n 10 # 10 seconds

[jonalmeida]

Fantastic, It works great now! I've been playing with it by importing repos individually and it seems to work well :)

Thanks for crazy fast support!

Closing..

[IonicaBizau]

You're welcome! 😄 Glad it's working!