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The Local Git Workflow Insights Platform for Real Developer Visibility

Understand how engineering work happens before commits are pushed. GitRevio tracks local development activity to reveal real workflows and team patterns. Source code never leaves your network. Only aggregated metadata is shared.

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✓ Secure Local Analysis

✓ No Workflow Disruption

✓ Actionable Insights

✓ Works with Existing Git Repositories

What Is a Local Git Workflow Insights Platform?

Most analytics tools only track pushed commits and merged pull requests. That means a huge part of developer work stays invisible. GitRevio LocalGit captures insights from local Git activity to reveal the full picture — before code ever reaches GitHub or GitLab.

WHAT LOCALGIT REVEALS

✓ Coding sessions

✓ Refactoring time

✓ Branch activity

✓ Commit preparation behavior

✓ Deep work patterns

✓ Developer focus time

✓ Workflow bottlenecks

WHY TRADITIONAL DASHBOARDS MISS LOCAL WORKFLOWS

Remote repositories only show final outputs. They miss:

× Draft commits

× Local experimentation

× Time spent solving issues

× Frequent context switching

× Idle vs productive coding time

× Work done before pushing code

GitRevio solves this with complete local development workflow visibility.

Why Teams Need Developer Activity Insights

For CTOs

Understand team velocity and engineering capacity.

For Team Leads

Spot blockers early and improve sprint planning.

For Managers

Track workflow health without micromanaging.

For Developers

See focus trends and improve personal productivity.

What LocalGit analyzes

Deep code intelligence derived locally, transmitted as statistics. Gitrevio sees the patterns — never the code.

DERIVED METRICS

Commit patterns

Frequency, timing, size distribution, and consistency for each contributor. Detects changes in work patterns that signal engagement shifts.

File change frequency

Hotspot analysis showing which files and directories change most often. Identifies high-churn areas that may need refactoring.

Complexity trends

Cyclomatic and cognitive complexity tracked over time by file, module, and repo. Spots areas where complexity is growing unchecked.

Coupling analysis

Files that consistently change together, revealing implicit dependencies. Finds architectural coupling that your module boundaries don't reflect.

Knowledge ownership

Who knows what, how concentrated that knowledge is, and where bus factors are dangerously low. Built from commit history and review patterns.

Test coverage correlation

Maps code changes against test changes to identify areas where tests lag behind production code. Flags untested complexity growth.

Code blast radius

Formal reachability analysis on the dependency graph. Computes which files, services, and teams are transitively affected by any code change. Only the graph structure and blast radius scores are sent to cloud — never source code.

SHIPPED ANALYZERS

Lizard

Cyclomatic complexity across all major languages. Tracked over time by file, module, and repo.

flake8 + pylint + ruff

Python lint, complexity, and style. Three analyzers run in parallel; results normalized into a single quality stream.

eslint

JavaScript and TypeScript lint and complexity. Plugin-aware — your project's eslint config is honored.

go vet

Go static analysis. Catches the bugs `go build` doesn't.

eastwood

Clojure linter. Standard for the JVM Lisp ecosystem.

Blast-radius DAG

Formal reachability on the import graph for Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, Clojure, PHP. Only graph + scores cross the network.

PHP and Java analyzers are next in the queue (P0 / W1–W4).

How LocalGit works

# Install via Docker

$ docker run -d \

--name gitrevio-localgit \

-v /path/to/repos:/repos:ro \

-e GITREVIO_API_KEY=gr_live_... \

-e GITREVIO_ORG_ID=your-org \

gitrevio/localgit:latest

# Or install as a binary

$ curl -fsSL https://get.gitrevio.com/localgit | sh

$ gitrevio-localgit init \

--repos /path/to/repos \

--api-key gr_live_...

$ gitrevio-localgit start

The LocalGit agent runs as a Docker container or standalone binary on your infrastructure — a build server, a dedicated VM, or any machine with access to your git repositories.

It reads your repos with read-only access, performs analysis locally, and sends only structured metadata to Gitrevio's cloud. The entire process is transparent and auditable.

Initial analysis runs once, then incremental updates process new commits as they arrive. Resource usage is minimal — under 512MB RAM for most organizations.

Works alongside your existing GitHub/GitLab integration. LocalGit handles code-level analysis; the platform integration handles issues, PRs, and reviews.

Code blast radius: know what a change actually touches

LocalGit builds a full dependency graph of your codebase and runs formal reachability analysis on it — entirely on your infrastructure. For any file change, it computes which files, services, and teams are transitively affected. The cloud receives only the graph structure and blast radius scores, never source code or file contents.

# Blast radius for a file change

$ gitrevio-localgit blast-radius src/auth/session.ts

Direct dependents (4 files):

src/auth/middleware.ts

src/api/login.ts

src/api/oauth.ts

src/auth/refresh.ts

Transitive reach (14 files, 3 services):

auth-service (8 files) — team: Platform

api-gateway (4 files) — team: Platform

billing-svc (2 files) — team: Payments

Blast radius score: 0.31 (moderate)

# Cross-team impact: Payments team should review

Blast radius is computed via static analysis of imports, call graphs, and service boundaries — not heuristics. It catches transitive dependencies that developers routinely miss during code review.

Cross-team impact is surfaced automatically. When a change in the auth service transitively affects the billing service, the Payments team lead gets notified before the PR merges — not after the incident.

All analysis runs locally. The cloud sees a graph of hashed node IDs and numeric scores. Your dependency structure stays on your infrastructure.

Best Use Cases for a Local Git Workflow Insights Platform

✓ Remote engineering teams

✓ Hybrid companies

✓ Fast-growing startups

✓ Enterprise development teams

✓ Agencies managing multiple developers

✓ Performance improvement initiatives

✓ Engineering leadership reporting

The security model

We designed LocalGit for organizations where code access is a non-negotiable security boundary. Here's exactly what crosses that boundary — and what doesn't.

NEVER SENT to Gitrevio

× Source code — not a single line

× Diff contents or patch data

× Commit messages (optionally sent, off by default)

× File contents or file names (hashed only)

× Branch names (optionally sent, off by default)

× Environment variables or secrets

SENT as metadata

✓ Commit timestamps and contributor IDs

✓ Lines added/removed per commit (counts only)

✓ File-level complexity scores (numeric)

✓ Change frequency per file hash

✓ Co-change patterns (file hash pairs)

✓ Test-to-source ratio per module

✓ Blast radius scores and dependency graph structure (hashed node IDs)

# Audit what's being sent — anytime

$ gitrevio-localgit audit --last 24h

Outbound payloads in the last 24 hours: 12

Total data transmitted: 2.3 MB

Payload types: commit_stats (8), complexity_update (3), ownership_map (1)

$ gitrevio-localgit audit --last 24h --verbose

# Shows full JSON payloads for inspection

GitRevio vs Traditional Git Analytics Tools

FEATURE

STANDARD TOOLS

GITREVIO LOCALGIT

Remote Repo Metrics

Yes

Local Workflow Tracking

Yes

Developer Activity Insights

Limited

Advanced

Real Productivity Signals

Yes

Local Development Workflow Visibility

Yes

Built for regulated industries

Defense contractors, financial institutions, healthcare companies, and government agencies need engineering intelligence too — but they can't send source code to a third-party cloud. LocalGit is the answer.

Aligned with ISO 27001 controls and designed for enterprise security policies that restrict code egress. Your infosec team can audit every byte that leaves your network.

Self-hosted deployment options are on the roadmap for the most sensitive environments. Contact us for details.

How we compare to competitors

Most engineering intelligence platforms require direct cloud access to your repositories — OAuth tokens with read access to every repo, every branch, every file. For many organizations, that's a dealbreaker.

Some offer "on-premise" deployments, but that means hosting their entire platform on your infrastructure — complex, expensive, and hard to maintain.

LocalGit is different: a lightweight agent that handles only code analysis on your side, while the rest of the platform stays in our cloud. You get the full Gitrevio experience without the security tradeoff or the operational burden of self-hosting.

Architecture

YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE GITREVIO CLOUD

+------------------+

| Git Repos (RO) |

+--------+---------+

+--------+---------+ metadata only +------------------+

| LocalGit Agent | --------------------> | Gitrevio API |

| | (TLS encrypted) | |

| - Analyzes code | | - Aggregates |

| - Computes stats| | - Correlates |

| - Hashes files | | - AI reasoning |

+------------------+ +------------------+

Source code never crosses the boundary.

All transmitted data is auditable via CLI.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a local git workflow insights platform?

A local git workflow insights platform analyzes local Git activity to reveal how development work happens before code is pushed.

How does GitRevio provide developer activity insights?

It tracks patterns like commit behavior, coding sessions, branch usage, and productivity trends — all derived locally, with only aggregated metadata sent to the cloud.

Is LocalGit secure?

Yes. GitRevio is designed to be used securely and privately. Source code never leaves your network — only structured numerical metadata is transmitted.

Who should use LocalGit?

CTOs, engineering managers, team leads, and software teams who need real visibility into how engineering work happens.

Can it work with GitHub or GitLab?

Yes. LocalGit complements remote repository data. It handles code-level local analysis while your existing GitHub/GitLab integration handles issues, PRs, and reviews.

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