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Count commits, file changes, lines added or deleted, and Pull Request for the year

Get some statistic through using Git Command

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It almost the end of 2020, ever wonder how lines of code added or deleted in your git repo? How many files have changed, etc. statistic?

I have to search around for the right git command to get this info, as it is not readily available on the GitHub page. Hence sharing with all in case it is handy.

Counting the number or Commits for a Branch

git rev-list --count --since="Jan 1 2020" master

You can also use --before .

Finding specific Git commit at a point in time

Count the file changes and lines added or deleted

git log --shortstat --since "Jan 1, 2020" --until "today" | grep "files changed" | awk '{files+=$1; inserted+=$4; deleted+=$6} END {print "files changed", files, "lines inserted:", inserted, "lines deleted:", deleted}'

Here you can get the following since Jan 1, 2020

• File Changed
• Lines Added
• Lines Deleted

You can find by specific author by adding

--author "author name"

Count the number of Pull Requests for the year

This one, there’s not git command for it, as Pull Request is not really a Git feature, but rather a Github feature.

But we can do the query from the Pull Request page by adding the below filter command

is:pr created:>2020-01-01