How to count total lines changed by a specific author in a Git repository?

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Is there a command I can invoke which will count the lines changed by a specific author in a Git repository? I know that there must be ways to count the number of commits as Github does this for their Impact graph.

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The output of the following command should be reasonably easy to send to script to add up the totals:

git log --author="<authorname>" --oneline --shortstat

This gives stats for all commits on the current HEAD. If you want to add up stats in other branches you will have to supply them as arguments to git log.

For passing to a script, removing even the "oneline" format can be done with an empty log format, and as commented by Jakub Narębski, --numstat is another alternative. It generates per-file rather than per-line statistics but is even easier to parse.

git log --author="<authorname>" --pretty=tformat: --numstat

In case anyone wants to see the stats for every user in their codebase, a couple of my coworkers recently came up with this horrific one-liner:

git log --shortstat --pretty="%cE" | sed 's/\(.*\)@.*/\1/' | grep -v "^$" | awk 'BEGIN { line=""; } !/^ / { if (line=="" || !match(line, $0)) {line = $0 "," line }} /^ / { print line " # " $0; line=""}' | sort | sed -E 's/# //;s/ files? changed,//;s/([0-9]+) ([0-9]+ deletion)/\1 0 insertions\(+\), \2/;s/\(\+\)$/\(\+\), 0 deletions\(-\)/;s/insertions?\(\+\), //;s/ deletions?\(-\)//' | awk 'BEGIN {name=""; files=0; insertions=0; deletions=0;} {if ($1 != name && name != "") { print name ": " files " files changed, " insertions " insertions(+), " deletions " deletions(-), " insertions-deletions " net"; files=0; insertions=0; deletions=0; name=$1; } name=$1; files+=$2; insertions+=$3; deletions+=$4} END {print name ": " files " files changed, " insertions " insertions(+), " deletions " deletions(-), " insertions-deletions " net";}'

(Takes a few minutes to crunch through our repo, which has around 10-15k commits.)

To count number of commits by a given author (or all authors) on a given branch you can use git-shortlog; see especially its --numbered and --summary options, e.g. when run on git repository:

$ git shortlog v1.6.4 --numbered --summary
  6904  Junio C Hamano
  1320  Shawn O. Pearce
  1065  Linus Torvalds
    692  Johannes Schindelin
    443  Eric Wong

A solution was given with ruby in the middle, perl being a little more available by default here is an alternative using perl for current lines by author.

git ls-files -z | xargs -0n1 git blame -w | perl -n -e '/^.*\((.*?)\s*[\d]{4}/; print $1,"\n"' | sort -f | uniq -c | sort -n

you can use whodid (https://www.npmjs.com/package/whodid)

$ npm install whodid -g
$ cd your-project-dir

and

$ whodid author --include-merge=false --path=./ --valid-threshold=1000 --since=1.week

or just type

$ whodid

then you can see result like this

Contribution state
=====================================================
 score  | author
-----------------------------------------------------
 3059   | someguy <someguy@tensorflow.org>
 585    | somelady <somelady@tensorflow.org>
 212    | niceguy <nice@google.com>
 173    | coolguy <coolgay@google.com>
=====================================================

Here's a quick ruby script that corrals up the impact per user against a given log query.

For example, for rubinius:

Brian Ford: 4410668
Evan Phoenix: 1906343
Ryan Davis: 855674
Shane Becker: 242904
Alexander Kellett: 167600
Eric Hodel: 132986
Dirkjan Bussink: 113756
...

the script:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

impact = Hash.new(0)

IO.popen("git log --pretty=format:\"%an\" --shortstat #{ARGV.join(' ')}") do |f|
  prev_line = ''
  while line = f.gets
    changes = /(\d+) insertions.*(\d+) deletions/.match(line)

    if changes
      impact[prev_line] += changes[1].to_i + changes[2].to_i
    end

    prev_line = line # Names are on a line of their own, just before the stats
  end
end

impact.sort_by { |a,i| -i }.each do |author, impact|
  puts "#{author.strip}: #{impact}"
end

Here is a great repo that makes your life easier

git-quick-stats

On a mac with brew installed

brew install git-quick-stats

Run

git-quick-stats

Just choose which option you want from this list by typing in the number listed and hitting enter.

 Generate:
    1) Contribution stats (by author)
    2) Contribution stats (by author) on a specific branch
    3) Git changelogs (last 10 days)
    4) Git changelogs by author
    5) My daily status
    6) Save git log output in JSON format

 List:
    7) Branch tree view (last 10)
    8) All branches (sorted by most recent commit)
    9) All contributors (sorted by name)
   10) Git commits per author
   11) Git commits per date
   12) Git commits per month
   13) Git commits per weekday
   14) Git commits per hour
   15) Git commits by author per hour

 Suggest:
   16) Code reviewers (based on git history)

I provided a modification of a short answer above, but it wasnt sufficient for my needs. I needed to be able to categorize both committed lines and lines in the final code. I also wanted a break down by file. This code does not recurse, it will only return the results for a single directory, but it is a good start if someone wanted to go further. Copy and paste into a file and make executable or run it with Perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $dir = shift;

die "Please provide a directory name to check\n"
    unless $dir;

chdir $dir
    or die "Failed to enter the specified directory '$dir': $!\n";

if ( ! open(GIT_LS,'-|','git ls-files') ) {
    die "Failed to process 'git ls-files': $!\n";
}
my %stats;
while (my $file = <GIT_LS>) {
    chomp $file;
    if ( ! open(GIT_LOG,'-|',"git log --numstat $file") ) {
        die "Failed to process 'git log --numstat $file': $!\n";
    }
    my $author;
    while (my $log_line = <GIT_LOG>) {
        if ( $log_line =~ m{^Author:\s*([^<]*?)\s*<([^>]*)>} ) {
            $author = lc($1);
        }
        elsif ( $log_line =~ m{^(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(.*)} ) {
            my $added = $1;
            my $removed = $2;
            my $file = $3;
            $stats{total}{by_author}{$author}{added}        += $added;
            $stats{total}{by_author}{$author}{removed}      += $removed;
            $stats{total}{by_author}{total}{added}          += $added;
            $stats{total}{by_author}{total}{removed}        += $removed;

            $stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{$author}{added}   += $added;
            $stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{$author}{removed} += $removed;
            $stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{total}{added}     += $added;
            $stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{total}{removed}   += $removed;
        }
    }
    close GIT_LOG;

    if ( ! open(GIT_BLAME,'-|',"git blame -w $file") ) {
        die "Failed to process 'git blame -w $file': $!\n";
    }
    while (my $log_line = <GIT_BLAME>) {
        if ( $log_line =~ m{\((.*?)\s+\d{4}} ) {
            my $author = $1;
            $stats{final}{by_author}{$author}     ++;
            $stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{$author}++;

            $stats{final}{by_author}{total}       ++;
            $stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{total}  ++;
            $stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{total}  ++;
        }
    }
    close GIT_BLAME;
}
close GIT_LS;

print "Total lines committed by author by file\n";
printf "%25s %25s %8s %8s %9s\n",'file','author','added','removed','pct add';
foreach my $file (sort keys %{$stats{total}{by_file}}) {
    printf "%25s %4.0f%%\n",$file
            ,100*$stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{total}{added}/$stats{total}{by_author}{total}{added};
    foreach my $author (sort keys %{$stats{total}{by_file}{$file}}) {
        next if $author eq 'total';
        if ( $stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{total}{added} ) {
            printf "%25s %25s %8d %8d %8.0f%%\n",'', $author,@{$stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{$author}}{qw{added removed}}
            ,100*$stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{$author}{added}/$stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{total}{added};
        } else {
            printf "%25s %25s %8d %8d\n",'', $author,@{$stats{total}{by_file}{$file}{$author}}{qw{added removed}} ;
        }
    }
}
print "\n";

print "Total lines in the final project by author by file\n";
printf "%25s %25s %8s %9s %9s\n",'file','author','final','percent', '% of all';
foreach my $file (sort keys %{$stats{final}{by_file}}) {
    printf "%25s %4.0f%%\n",$file
            ,100*$stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{total}/$stats{final}{by_author}{total};
    foreach my $author (sort keys %{$stats{final}{by_file}{$file}}) {
        next if $author eq 'total';
        printf "%25s %25s %8d %8.0f%% %8.0f%%\n",'', $author,$stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{$author}
            ,100*$stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{$author}/$stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{total}
            ,100*$stats{final}{by_file}{$file}{$author}/$stats{final}{by_author}{total}
        ;
    }
}
print "\n";


print "Total lines committed by author\n";
printf "%25s %8s %8s %9s\n",'author','added','removed','pct add';
foreach my $author (sort keys %{$stats{total}{by_author}}) {
    next if $author eq 'total';
    printf "%25s %8d %8d %8.0f%%\n",$author,@{$stats{total}{by_author}{$author}}{qw{added removed}}
        ,100*$stats{total}{by_author}{$author}{added}/$stats{total}{by_author}{total}{added};
};
print "\n";


print "Total lines in the final project by author\n";
printf "%25s %8s %9s\n",'author','final','percent';
foreach my $author (sort keys %{$stats{final}{by_author}}) {
    printf "%25s %8d %8.0f%%\n",$author,$stats{final}{by_author}{$author}
        ,100*$stats{final}{by_author}{$author}/$stats{final}{by_author}{total};
}

For windows users you can use following batch script that counts added/removed lines for specified author

@echo off

set added=0
set removed=0

for /f "tokens=1-3 delims= " %%A in ('git log --pretty^=tformat: --numstat --author^=%1') do call :Count %%A %%B %%C

@echo added=%added%
@echo removed=%removed%
goto :eof

:Count
  if NOT "%1" == "-" set /a added=%added% + %1
  if NOT "%2" == "-" set /a removed=%removed% + %2
goto :eof

https://gist.github.com/zVolodymyr/62e78a744d99d414d56646a5e8a1ff4f

I wrote this Perl script to accomplish that task.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

# save the args to pass to the git log command
my $ARGS = join(' ', @ARGV);

#get the repo slug
my $NAME = _get_repo_slug();

#get list of authors
my @authors = _get_authors();
my ($projectFiles, $projectInsertions, $projectDeletions) = (0,0,0);
#for each author
foreach my $author (@authors) {
  my $command = qq{git log $ARGS --author="$author" --oneline --shortstat --no-merges};
  my ($files, $insertions, $deletions) = (0,0,0);
  my @lines = `$command`;
  foreach my $line (@lines) {
    if ($line =~ m/^\s(\d+)\s\w+\s\w+,\s(\d+)\s\w+\([\+|\-]\),\s(\d+)\s\w+\([\+|\-]\)$|^\s(\d+)\s\w+\s\w+,\s(\d+)\s\w+\(([\+|\-])\)$/) {
      my $lineFiles = $1 ? $1 : $4;
      my $lineInsertions = (defined $6 && $6 eq '+') ? $5 : (defined $2) ? $2 : 0;
      my $lineDeletions = (defined $6 && $6 eq '-') ? $5 : (defined $3) ? $3 : 0;
      $files += $lineFiles;
      $insertions += $lineInsertions;
      $deletions += $lineDeletions;
      $projectFiles += $lineFiles;
      $projectInsertions += $lineInsertions;
      $projectDeletions += $lineDeletions;
    }
  }
  if ($files || $insertions || $deletions) {
    printf(
      "%s,%s,%s,+%s,-%s,%s\n",
      $NAME,
      $author,
      $files,
      $insertions,
      $deletions,
      $insertions - $deletions
    );
  }
}

printf(
  "%s,%s,%s,+%s,-%s,%s\n",
  $NAME,
  'PROJECT_TOTAL',
  $projectFiles,
  $projectInsertions,
  $projectDeletions,
  $projectInsertions - $projectDeletions
);

exit 0;

#get the remote.origin.url joins that last two pieces (project and repo folder)
#and removes any .git from the results. 
sub _get_repo_slug {
  my $get_remote_url = "git config --get remote.origin.url";
  my $remote_url = `$get_remote_url`;
  chomp $remote_url;

  my @parts = split('/', $remote_url);

  my $slug = join('-', @parts[-2..-1]);
  $slug =~ s/\.git//;

  return $slug;
}

sub _get_authors {
  my $git_authors = 'git shortlog -s | cut -c8-';
  my @authors = `$git_authors`;
  chomp @authors;

  return @authors;
}

I named it git-line-changes-by-author and put into /usr/local/bin. Because it is saved in my path, I can issue the command git line-changes-by-author --before 2018-12-31 --after 2020-01-01 to get the report for the 2019 year. As an example. And if I were to misspell the name git will suggest the proper spelling.

You may want to adjust the _get_repo_slug sub to only include the last portion of the remote.origin.url as my repos are saved as project/repo and your might not be.

You want Git blame.

There's a --show-stats option to print some, well, stats.

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