GitHub Time Tracking in One Click

How to Use Time Tracking In GitHub

1. Locate timer button on a GitHub issue

On the Issues tab, select a required issue. A dialog window opens where you can view and edit the contents of the issue. You will see the Start timer button in the upper right corner of the window.

2. Start timer on an issue

Click the Start timer button and TMetric will start recording your GitHub working time. Notice that the Start timer button changes to the Stop timer button and displays the time spent on the issue.

If you are the workspace owner or assigned admin in TMetric and start the timer for the first time, TMetric pulls out from GitHub and adds to your TMetric workspace:

• issue name
• issue ID
• project name
• labels

Labels are mapped to the tags existing in the TMetric workspace. If the Allow creating tags on a fly option is enabled in the TMetric workspace then the labels are automatically created.   

The corresponding time entry appears on the Time page in the TMetric web app. You can easily navigate back to the GitHub issue simply by clicking the link icon next to the task name (in our case ID is #1).

3. Edit time entry, if necessary

A time entry with an external task can be edited. You can edit the name of the task, change a project and labels without losing a link to the GitHub issue.

To disassociate the task from the GitHub issue, click the cross icon next to the task name in the bottom right corner of the time entry editor.

4. View a time report

Reports show the time from different external systems, as well as the time entered manually in TMetric. 

TMetric is a great time tracking web app that allows you to control your time and stay productive throughout the day!