Retain reports by date and generate historical progression about plato HOT 9 CLOSED

+1 this would make it even more awesome

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👍 I was just about to request this. Would be very useful to be able to see size and complexity regressions over time.

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Rather than retaining reports, how about if you run it against a git repo, it creates a temporary clone, then iterates through commits. You might not want to run it for every commit, but maybe have it advance x number of days at a time.

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Being able to see a historical overview would be awesome - even if doing it via Git as @cwarden suggests comes as some form of standalone extension, rather than core functionality.

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Yep, this is in progress and is a high priority for me. Getting sick and losing a dev machine caused some significant backup for me, but this will be out asap.

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This is in progress on the dev branch and feedback is always welcome. First iteration should be out soon. Reorganizing the layout and better displaying this information will be a priority long-term, but the retention and basic visualization of some historical data will be the first release of this feature.

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Nice work. The first run reports errors about parsing the history files, but otherwise it looks good.
Using faketime to reconstruct a weekly history from a git repo is easy enough, e.g.

for days_ago in $(jot 20 140 0 -7); do
   date=$(date --date="$days_ago days ago" +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M');
   git co -f $(git rev-list -n 1 --before="$date" master);
   faketime "$date" ~/git/plato/bin/plato -d /tmp/plato -r app/;
done

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Looks really good!

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Just published 0.5.0 with some cleanup and historical reports (obligatory jQuery example)

@cwarden, incorporated the date faking into plato so you can do similar things without faketime and lovingly stole borrowed some of your logic in order to generate the examples with history see update.sh. Thanks!

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