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About
pepper is a flexible command-line tool for retrieving statistics and generating reports from source code repositories. It ships with several graphical and textual reports, and is easily extendable using the Lua scripting language. pepper includes support for multiple version control systems, including Git and Subversion. Using native language bindings, multi-threading and a local revision cache, it provides fast access to repository data.
Please see the Gallery page for a quick look on output images generated by some of pepper's built-in graphical reports.
pepper is free and open-source software, released under the GNU General Public License. Feature suggestions, bug reports as well as report and code contributions are welcome!
Feature overview:
- Many built-in reports, including lines of code, author contribution and other activity charts.
- Custom report scripts can be written in Lua. A Gnuplot interface is provided for easy graphical output.
- Support for multiple repository types. Currently, backends for Git, Subversion. and Mercurial are available.
- Fast repository access by using native libraries if possible (i.e., the SVN backend uses the Subversion C API, and the Python C API is used by the Mercurial backend).
- Fast local diffstat and meta-data cache using zlib compression.
News 
pepper-0.3.3 is now available. This release includes a number of bug-fixes and stability enhancements and enables compilation with Subversion 1.9. Mac OS X compatibility has been improved, too.
The homepage is now hosted by GitHub at https://jgehring.github.io/pepper. Old Sourceforge URLs will automaticelly redirect to the new location.
I'm happy to announce that source and binary packages are now available for both Debian Sid and Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail". Thanks go out to the respective maintainers!
I'm happy to announce that version 0.3.2 of pepper is now available. This release fixes compilation with GCC 4.7 as well as some minor memory leaks. As usual, you can find source tarballs the Download section.
I've just pushed the first version of a repository statistics server to GitHub. peprserv is actually a Lua report script for pepper, utilizing the Xavante HTTP web server. The main intention for this project is providing a backend for serving repository statistics to other web applications, like repository interfaces or bug trackers.
A live demo using the official Git repository is running at http://jgehring.net:9000, and the source code is available on GitHub.
I'm happy to announce that version 0.3.1 of pepper is now available. This
release brings the usual fixes as well as new features. Experimental
support for using LevelDB as a
backend for the revision cache has been added. The built-in Gnuplot
interface received a function for pie charts, which is already
used by the new authors_pie report and the new --pie flag for
the filetypes report. Furthermore, there's a new report called
volume which closely resembles the commit volume report from
Ohloh.
The list of bugs that have been fixed in this release includes an issue that broke plotting on Mac OS X and some headless environments. Repository detection for working copies handled with Subversion 1.7 has been fixed, too.
A more detailed listing of the changes can be found in the change log, source tarballs are available at the Download section.
The Gallery has been updated with new examples, now using a pretty Gnuplot style based on this GuidoLabs article.