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Quick Start Guide
Actionable reports: Finding outlier teams to spark discussions
Choosing preferred "Default Report," collecting your favorite charts into one place
Developer Metrics Encyclopedia: 70+ Stats for AI, Velocity, Debt, DORA, Issues and PRs - Defined & Illustrated
Programming languages (file types) processed by GitClear
Quick start guide: Commit Activity Browser
Starred Reports: Gather favorite GitClear reports into a single dashboard
Tailor Goal & Activity Notifications to Maximize Relevance
Troubleshooting your repository imports
Use the GitClear Rest API
AI Usage, Cohorts & Measures
Code Review & Navigation
Commit Activity Browser: use cases and configuration options
Commit Activity Browser: Visual Usage Guide
Different ways to choose repo, organization & team data being viewed
Diff Viewer: Visualize code changes
Directory Browser: Where is time and energy focused in this project?
File/directory ignore masks prevent noise
How to publish work via Snap Changelog
Recent Activity Summary: Instant visibility into team's recent issues, PRs, branches across repos
Code Quality
Code quality stat: Moved and Copy/Pasted (Duplicated) line percentage
Code Quality Stats: Overview of stats to gauge long-term velocity prognosis (churn, duplicate blocks, etc)
Code quality targets: Advice on specific, substantiated goals for code quality
Diff Delta as an incentive to improve code health
Duplicate code block detection
Tech Debt Inspector: List of lowest velocity directories
What constitutes a "Meaningful Code Line Change" in GitClear?
Diff Delta & Time Estimation
API Data Caching Limits (data preservation window)
Configuring and using Code Domains
Diff Delta Explained: Calculation, Operations and Idioms
How GitClear estimates time used (minutes, hour, days) per commit
Understanding Diff Delta, developer productivity metric, from first principles
When and why does Diff Delta change after being calculated?
Delivery Velocity
Delivery Velocity stats (Diff Delta History)
Developer Calibration Calculator: How closely does your intuition align with code metrics?
Hourly Delta Graph Overview
Hours Coding Estimate graph
Using the Cohort Report to improve developer onboarding
What is "code provenance" and why does it matter?
Which developers have been most prolific in which technologies? (Domain Experts report)
Developer Experience (DevEx)
Committer Changelog editing from the "Changelog Review" tab
Developer Annual Performance Reviews -- Without the Recency Bias
Measuring Developer Satisfaction via Sentiment Surveys
Team goals: Pick up to 30 team goals (notifications) to ensure code quality, developer experience, more
Weekly Developer Highlights Email: Recognition for a job well-done
Issue & Defect Tracking
All issue tracker stats available: Overview with screenshots
Connecting to Jira and maintaining issue tracker connection settings
How to reference an issue in Jira or GitHub
Issue Browser: Analyzed, actionable data for a specific sprint or moment in company history
Jira Sprint Stats Overview
Setting up Slack notifications for GitClear goals & alerts
Story Point setup and correlation
Using Issue Mapping for advanced commit/issue connectivity
Pull Requests
Classic Pull Request stats: how to optimize what matters for long-term health
Collaboration stats: review count, duration, comments per PR, more
Exclude a bot from pull request review stats
GitHub Chrome Extension: Review Less Code per PR
Rebase, Merge Commit, or Squash: Details of how completed pull requests distribute Diff Delta
Reviewing code: Saving 20-30% on PR review vs. GitHub and other Myers-based diffs
Reviewing pull requests: discussion, overview, code quality, problem detection
Google DORA Stats
Critical Defect Data Browser: Learning from past challenges via granular data
Critical Defect Detection Terms
Critical Defects: Overview and setup of a DORA pillar
Distilled summary of 2024/2025 Google DORA Report
Google DORA in detail: precise definitions, specific units and examples
Release (Deploy) tracking setup
Account Setup & Management
API quotas for importing repositories
Enterprise: Enabling SSO support with SAML
GitClear Ambassadors: terms and conditions overview
How do I unlink my repositories?
How to invite new users to GitClear
Importing Open Source repos to your account
Installing our on prem Enterprise edition
Setting up a new API connection in GitClear Enterprise
Sync teams from an external git provider
Billing & Subscription
Benefits of subscribing to TrialPLUS
Bot processing: What gets processed, how to change it?
Contributors List: Merge, Exile, Change Seats for Contributors
How do I cancel my account?
Pricing: what is an "active contributor"?
Starter Plan subscription: Free, lightweight measurement & changelogs
Subscription Seats and Active Contributors
Use Cases
Automated Changelogs: Publish Illustrated Progress for Customers, and Weekly/Annual Reviews
Example Commit Group patterns found in Commit Activity Browser
Exporting Chart Data for CSV or XLS Analysis
GenAI Impact: 7 metrics to track before adoption
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?
Who from the team is the expert in a technology?
Security
Accessing a committer's individual report data
Are Developer Analytics tools like Big Brother?
Configuring security permissions (OpenAI, research)
How can I report a security concern?
Network & server security
Product security overview
Source code protections
What do you do with each of the authorizations you ask for?