On large repos the script takes several seconds to run. A progress bar should be displayed.

See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/write-progress?view=powershell-6

Have options to order the output by:

• Name
• First Commit
• Last Commit
• Number of commits

AKAs (Also Known As) should have an option to be hidden in the output.

Some commits in a test repo have the name "Unknown" attached to them. Several users are in this situation which means that one of the users gets a ton of commits assigned to them incorrectly.

Add an "ignore" file that contains details of the items to ignore when determining which contributor gets the commit allocated to them.

The script tries to work out AKAs itself. It doesn't always get it right either by conflating two distinct users or by not merging commits by a single used because they came via a different tool.

e.g.

"2019-02-19 07:18:14 +0000","colin.mackay","colin.mackay@TeamCity"

Doesn't match any of my other commits in that repo so it shows up as two distinct users in the final report.

It would be useful to provide some way of telling the script up front that this commit is the same user as:

"2018-12-17 10:05:41 +0000","Colin Mackay","[email protected]"

There should be a summary at the end with the following information:

• Total Commits
• First commit date
• Last commit date
• Name of person that committed the most

Current output will display something like this:

**Angela Constance** contributed 1 commit from Monday, 16 October, 2017 @ 11:55:49 +01:00 to 11:55:49 +01:00

but it should be something more like:

**Angela Constance** contributed 1 commit on Monday, 16 October, 2017 @ 11:55:49 +01:00

The output should use as the primary name (not an AKA name) the one that appears in most commits.

The "ignore lists" are badly named because they don't define what is to be ignored, they define what is not to be conflated with other things. The AKA details are automatically added to the "ignore lists", yet they are explicit about what is supposed to exist.

Find a better name for the ignore lists.

The first and last commit times are ordered by the date in the raw-contributors.csv file. If the users all belong to one timezone then this works fine. If the contributors span multiple timezones then this ordering doesn't work as it is text based and the date format is not a sortable one.

The summary needs better formatting to be easier to read. Probably in bullet form:

31 commits in total
📅 from Sunday, 19 May, 2019 @ 10:41:24 +01:00
📅 until Sunday, 18 August, 2019 @ 18:40:09 +01:00.
🥇 The top committer was Colin Mackay with 29 commits which represents 93.55% of all commits.