This utility will help generate test repositories for code insights. This will allow you to define deterministic data sets, and let the utility handle building the repos.

This is a use at your own discretion utility. If you find value, please use it.

Provide a manifest file that describes the data series you want to generate.

{
  "definitions": [
    {
      "repo_path": "path_to_repo",
      "symbols": [
        {
          "symbol": "insights",
          "snapshots": [
            {
              "instant": "2021-05-01T00:00:00Z",
              "count": 5
            },
            {
              "instant": "2021-06-01T00:00:00Z",
              "count": 8
            },
            {
              "instant": "2021-07-01T00:00:00Z",
              "count": 14
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "symbol": "salami",
          "snapshots": [
            {
              "instant": "2021-05-01T00:00:00Z",
              "count": 5
            },
            {
              "instant": "2021-06-01T00:00:00Z",
              "count": 3
            },
            {
              "instant": "2021-07-01T00:00:00Z",
              "count": 0
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Point the repo_path field at a git repository (that is already initialized, and on the primary branch).

Run the tool ./insight-data-gen --manifest=./examples/manifest.json

The tool will generate commits at each specified timestamp with a file named files/findme.txt that will have occurrences of each symbol in the specified number of counts

git checkout 32e5099cfbc70024a98bfb61bbb90b325d3d5659
cat /files/findme.txt

insights
insights
insights
insights
insights
insights
insights
insights
salami
salami
salami

1. Handle the git repo automatically (init, branch, etc)
2. Launch src-cli and mount generated repos to Sourcegraph
3. Gracefully handle duplicate commits
4. Generate the manifest with some help input rather than require the manifest manually created