README

Introduction

Marathon is a command-line tool written in PHP and Symfony that empowers you to efficiently manage todo-list for your projects. It provides a comprehensive solution for maintaining a project-related activities through commit history.

Features

• Commit: Easily associate time entries with project commits to maintain a history of actions taken during the task.
• Remaining time: Organize your time into tasks with time remaining.
• Emojies supports: ( 📝 :pencil:, 🎉 :tada:, 🍺 :beer: ect...) 5000+ emojies supported into commit message.
• Markdown support: Implementation of markdown synthax into commit message.
• Custom tags supports: (<red>, <green-bg>, <bold> ect...) Implemented into commit message.

Installation

Binary

curl --output marathon https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mediashare/marathon/main/marathon
chmod 755 marathon
sudo cp marathon /usr/local/bin/marathon
marathon <command>

Docker

Dockerfile

git clone https://github.com/Mediashare/marathon
cd marathon
docker build -t marathon .
docker run -it marathon <command>

Composer

Basic

composer require mediashare/marathon
./vendor/mediashare/marathon/bin/marathon <command>

Global

composer global require mediashare/marathon
marathon <command>

Usage

Here are some examples of how to use Marathon:

• To check the time you spend on a project, you can create a task for each phase of the project.
• To check the time you spend on a recurring task, you can create a task with a start date and an end date.
• To check the time you spend on a task with a client or vendor, you can add this information to the task.

Commands

  marathon task:list                        Displaying the tasks list
  marathon task:start <?task-id>            Starting step of task
  marathon task:stop <?task-id>             Stoping step of task
  marathon task:status <?task-id>           Displaying status of task
  marathon task:archive <task-id>           Archive the task by ID
  marathon task:delete <task-id>            Deleting the task by ID

  marathon commit:create <?commit-message>  Creating new commit into task
  marathon commit:edit <commit-id>          Editing the commit from task
  marathon commit:delete <commit-id>        Deleting the commit from task
  
  marathon git:gitignore                    Adding .marathon rule into .gitgnore
  marathon version:update <?version>        Update version of Marathon

Task Workflow

Creating a task

marathon task:start # Start a task without specifying a name.
marathon task:start 123 # Start a task with the specified ID (e.g., ID 123).
marathon task:start --name "Feature Implementation" # Start a task and set the name to "Feature Implementation".
marathon task:start --new # Start a completely new task without specifying a name.
marathon task:start --duration 2h # Start a task and sets the duration of the current step to 2 hours.
marathon task:start --remaining 4h # Start a task and sets the remaining time of the task to 4 hours.
marathon task:start 456 --new --name "New feature" --duration 30min # Start a completely new task with the ID 456 and sets the duration of the current step to 30 minutes.

Creating a commit

marathon commit:create # Create a new commit without specifying a message.
marathon commit:create "Initial commit" # Create a new commit for the current task with the specified message.
marathon commit:create -E # Open default editor for write a message and commit.
marathon commit:create "This is a very long commit message describing the changes made in this commit. It covers multiple lines and provides detailed information about the updates." # Create a new commit with a long and detailed commit message.
marathon commit:create "Your commit message" --duration 1h # Create a new commit with a message and sets its duration to 1 hour.
marathon commit:create "Test update older task with ID 123 or create it" --task-id 123 # Create a new commit for the task specified by the ID.
marathon commit:create "Rollback" --duration "-1hour" # Create a new commit with a message and sets its duration to rollback (negative duration).

Editing a commit

marathon commit:edit <commit-id> --message "Updated message" --duration 30min # Edit the message and duration of a specific commit.
marathon commit:edit 456 -E # Open default editor for edit a message for commit ID 456.
marathon commit:edit 456 --duration 1h # Edit the commit with ID 456 and updates its duration to 1 hour.
marathon commit:edit 300 --task-id 123 --message "Update commit with ID 300 from task ID 123" # Edit the last commit from the task specified by the ID.

Deleting a commit

marathon commit:delete <commit-id> # Delete the commit with ID from the current task.
marathon commit:delete 456 # Delete the commit with ID 123 from the task specified by the ID 111 and save it into the configuration.
marathon commit:delete 300 --task-id 123 # Delete the commit with ID 300 from the task specified by the ID 123.

Displaying task status

marathon task:status # Display the status of the current task.
marathon task:status 123 # Display the status of the task with ID 123.

Stopping a task step

marathon task:stop # Stop the current step of the task with the default duration.
marathon task:stop <?task-id> # Stop the task step with task ID.
marathon task:stop 123 --duration 1h # Stop the task step with ID 123 and updates its duration to 1 hour.

Archive or deleting a task

marathon task:archive <task-id> # Archive the task with ID without stopping the current step.
marathon task:archive 123 # Archive the task with ID 123.

# or delete the task

marathon task:delete <task-id> # Delete the task with ID.
marathon task:delete 123 # Delete the task with ID 123.

Archive or delete the current task.

Displaying task list

marathon task:list # Display the list of tasks.

Additional Commands

Adding Marathon rule to .gitignore

marathon git:gitignore # Add the .marathon rule to your project .gitignore file.

Update Marathon to the latest version

marathon version:update # Update Marathon to the latest version.

Configuration Options

Marathon provides several configuration options, edit the configuration file with the given parameters, that you can customize:

• --config-path: Specify the path to the JSON configuration file.
• --config-datetime-format: Set the DateTimeFormat for date format displayed.
• --config-datetime-zone: Set the DateTimeZone for UTC used.
• --config-task-dir: Set the directory path containing task files.
• --config-editor: Set the default editor command to use to write commits messages.

marathon task:start --config-path=/path/to/config/file --config-datetime-format="d/m/Y H:i:s" --config-datetime-zone="Europe/London" --config-task-dir=/path/to/tasks/directory --config-editor vim

Feel free to explore and make the most of Marathon to streamline your project management workflow!

Contributing

Marathon is an open-source project. You can contribute to the project by submitting bug fixes, improvements, or new features.

To contribute to the project, you can follow these instructions:

• Clone the marathon GitHub repository
• Create a branch for your contribution
• Make your changes
• Test your changes with bin/phpunit
• Build your bin with box compile
• Submit a pull request

Build a bin with Box

Box install

Box2 used for binary generation from php project. PHP >=8.1 is required.

composer global require humbug/box
box

Box usage

composer install --no-scripts --no-autoloader
composer dump-autoload --optimize
box compile

Conclusion

Marathon is a simple and effective tool that can help you better manage your time. If you are looking for a free and open-source time tracker, Marathon is a good option.