Product Reference Documentation
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Quick Start Guide
How fast can I get an analysis?
How to publish work via Chart Glimpse
Importing repos to GitClear
Installing our on prem Enterprise edition
New users' Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Programming languages supported by GitClear
Quick start guide: Commit Activity Browser
Troubleshooting your repository imports
Use the GitClear Rest API
Using Resource Notifications on GitClear
Code Review & Navigation
Code reactions help track developer sentiment
Commenting on code, commits, or pull requests
Commit Activity Browser: use cases and configuration options
Commit Activity Browser: Visual Usage Guide
Different ways to choose repo, organization & team data being viewed
Directory Browser: Where is time and energy focused in this project?
File/directory ignore masks prevent noise
Tech Debt Inspector: List of lowest velocity directories
What are Commit Groups?
Diff Delta & Time Estimation
Configuring and using Code Domains
Customizing code file types
Diff Delta Benchmarks: What does it mean to accumulate 100k or 1m Diff Delta?
Diff Delta Calculation: Operations and Idioms
How GitClear estimates time used (minutes, hour, days) per commit
When and why does Diff Delta change after being calculated?
Which branches are assigned Diff Delta?
Delivery Velocity
Delivery Velocity stats (Diff Delta History)
Hourly Delta Graph Overview
Release Tracking setup
Staying on top of Pull Requests for improved feature delivery speed and quality
Using the Cohort Report to improve developer onboarding
Velocity Consistency Stats
What is "code provenance" and why does it matter?
Which developers have been most prolific in which technologies? (Domain Experts report)
Issue & Defect Tracking
Critical Defect Tracking setup
Detecting bug sources: which files and directories are causing problems?
Issue Tracker Project settings
Issue tracker ticket transitions: setup and use
Overview of issue tracker stats available
Reference an Issue Tracker Project issue
Story Point setup and correlation
Using Issue Mapping for advanced commit/issue connectivity
Using Issue Tracker Connection settings to connect to Jira
What are the Google DORA stats, and how to interpret your own DevOps performance?
Pull Requests
Classic Pull Request stats: how to optimize what matters for long-term health
Exclude a bot from pull request review stats
Identify & enable notifications upon stuck pull requests
Kick-start lingering pull requests
Learn from PR overruns during your retrospective meeting
Overview of Pull Request Stats
PR collaboration hygiene: are things getting better or worse? Is collaboration slowing velocity?
What is considered an "Unreviewed PR," and how to see when they happen?
Billing & Account Management
Accessing a committer's individual report data
API quotas for importing repositories
Billing cycles and active contributors
Enterprise: Enabling SSO support with SAML
GitClear Ambassadors: terms and conditions overview
How do I cancel my account?
How do I set up teams and control the access of team members?
How do I unlink my repositories?
Merge or exile a contributor (committer)
Pricing: what is an "active contributor"?
Setting up a new API connection in GitClear Enterprise
Use Cases
Diff Delta as an incentive to improve code health
Find the best developer for a Jira
How does your dev team compare to industry leaders?
How is your new developer ramping up? Do they need help they're scared to ask for?
How to promote developer buy-in of GitClear?
Identify and assist struggling Developers
Instant progress updates through a shareable image: Chart Glimpse overview
Patterns in Commit Activity Browser
Preparing for an annual review: three reports to spark conversation
Who from the team is the expert in a technology?