the initial (starting) point
Often I found myself looking at a project that I like and thinking: "How does this thing start in the very beginning?", but then, finding the first commit it's not so straightforward; so...this is how I met the idea of arke.
Arke is a cli utility, written in JavaScript, that given an owner and a repository will give you the url where you can find the first commit (or at least one of the very first!) of the repository you are looking for. The process is still not 100% exact right now, I'm still working on a more solid solution.
$ npm install -g arkeor you can immediately using it without the need of installation with:
$ npx arkeYou can use arke in two ways:
- passing to the cli with -f flag the repositoryOwner followed by a / and the repositoryName, for example:
$ npx arke -fglippi/arke- answering the questions that the cli will prompt to you, in this case you just have to write arke and hit enter:
$ npx arkethen the cli will ask you for owner and repository name like below:
$ Enter repository name
$ Enter repository authorἀρχή is a greek word which means beginning. More details here
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