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Developers want a fast CLI to see code authorship and ownership across a whole repo at scale

A Show HN for a git authorship CLI that does industrial-scale git blaming reached 252 points and 127 comments, showing strong appetite for understanding who wrote and owns what across a large codebase. Plain git blame is per-file and slow, and finding the right reviewer, the de facto owner of a module, or who to ask about a bug is painful in big repos. The buildable gap is a CLI that aggregates blame and history across directories to surface real ownership, reviewer suggestions, and bus-factor risk quickly.

Product Idea from this Signal

A CLI tool that ranks code authorship and ownership across a whole repo and routes reviewers

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Developers cannot answer who owns a file or directory quickly because git blame works line by line and CODEOWNERS is a static config that drifts from reality. This is a fast command line tool that walks the full commit history of any repo, ranks real contributors per file and per directory with team aware dedup and filtering, and turns that into reviewer routing and an exportable ownership map.

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Score Breakdown

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Gap Assessment

UnderservedExisting solutions leave gaps

git blame and CODEOWNERS exist but neither answers ownership questions fast across a whole repo. The strong Show HN response confirms appetite; a focused CLI plus optional reviewer-routing has room.