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

Question

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.

Answer 1

This gives some statistics about the author, modify as required.

Using Gawk:

git log --author="_Your_Name_Here_" --pretty=tformat: --numstat \
| gawk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf "added lines: %s removed lines: %s total lines: %s\n", add, subs, loc }' -

Using Awk on Mac OSX:

git log --author="_Your_Name_Here_" --pretty=tformat: --numstat | awk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf "added lines: %s, removed lines: %s, total lines: %s\n", add, subs, loc }' -

EDIT (2017)

There is a new package on github that looks slick and uses bash as dependencies (tested on linux). It's more suitable for direct usage rather than scripts.

It's git-quick-stats (github link).

Copy git-quick-stats to a folder and add the folder to path.

mkdir ~/source
cd ~/source
git clone git@github.com:arzzen/git-quick-stats.git
mkdir ~/bin
ln -s ~/source/git-quick-stats/git-quick-stats ~/bin/git-quick-stats
chmod +x ~/bin/git-quick-stats
export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin

Usage:

git-quick-stats

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.)

Answer 4

git-fame

https://github.com/oleander/git-fame-rb

This is a nice tool to get the count for all authors at once, including commit and modified files count:

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
sudo gem install git_fame
cd /path/to/gitdir && git fame

There is also Python version at https://github.com/casperdcl/git-fame (mentioned by @fracz):

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential 
pip install --user git-fame
cd /path/to/gitdir && git fame

Sample output:

Total number of files: 2,053
Total number of lines: 63,132
Total number of commits: 4,330

+------------------------+--------+---------+-------+--------------------+
| name                   | loc    | commits | files | percent            |
+------------------------+--------+---------+-------+--------------------+
| Johan Sørensen         | 22,272 | 1,814   | 414   | 35.3 / 41.9 / 20.2 |
| Marius Mathiesen       | 10,387 | 502     | 229   | 16.5 / 11.6 / 11.2 |
| Jesper Josefsson       | 9,689  | 519     | 191   | 15.3 / 12.0 / 9.3  |
| Ole Martin Kristiansen | 6,632  | 24      | 60    | 10.5 / 0.6 / 2.9   |
| Linus Oleander         | 5,769  | 705     | 277   | 9.1 / 16.3 / 13.5  |
| Fabio Akita            | 2,122  | 24      | 60    | 3.4 / 0.6 / 2.9    |
| August Lilleaas        | 1,572  | 123     | 63    | 2.5 / 2.8 / 3.1    |
| David A. Cuadrado      | 731    | 111     | 35    | 1.2 / 2.6 / 1.7    |
| Jonas Ängeslevä        | 705    | 148     | 51    | 1.1 / 3.4 / 2.5    |
| Diego Algorta          | 650    | 6       | 5     | 1.0 / 0.1 / 0.2    |
| Arash Rouhani          | 629    | 95      | 31    | 1.0 / 2.2 / 1.5    |
| Sofia Larsson          | 595    | 70      | 77    | 0.9 / 1.6 / 3.8    |
| Tor Arne Vestbø        | 527    | 51      | 97    | 0.8 / 1.2 / 4.7    |
| spontus                | 339    | 18      | 42    | 0.5 / 0.4 / 2.0    |
| Pontus                 | 225    | 49      | 34    | 0.4 / 1.1 / 1.7    |
+------------------------+--------+---------+-------+--------------------+

But be warned: as mentioned by Jared in the comment, doing it on a very large repository will take hours. Not sure if that could be improved though, considering that it must process so much Git data.

Answer 5

I found the following to be useful to see who had the most lines that were currently in the code base:

git ls-files -z | xargs -0n1 git blame -w | ruby -n -e '$_ =~ /^.*\((.*?)\s[\d]{4}/; puts $1.strip' | sort -f | uniq -c | sort -n

The other answers have mostly focused on lines changed in commits, but if commits don't survive and are overwritten, they may just have been churn. The above incantation also gets you all committers sorted by lines instead of just one at a time. You can add some options to git blame (-C -M) to get some better numbers that take file movement and line movement between files into account, but the command might run a lot longer if you do.

Also, if you're looking for lines changed in all commits for all committers, the follow little script is helpful:

http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org/#git-rank-contributors

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

After looking at Alex's and Gerty3000's answer, I have tried to shorten the one-liner:

Basically, using git log numstat and not keeping track of the number of files changed.

Git version 2.1.0 on Mac OSX:

git log --format='%aN' | sort -u | while read name; do echo -en "$name\t"; git log --author="$name" --pretty=tformat: --numstat | awk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf "added lines: %s, removed lines: %s, total lines: %s\n", add, subs, loc }' -; done

Example:

Jared Burrows   added lines: 6826, removed lines: 2825, total lines: 4001

Answer 8

The Answer from AaronM using the shell one-liner is good, but actually, there is yet another bug, where spaces will corrupt the user names if there are different amounts of white spaces between the user name and the date. The corrupted user names will give multiple rows for user counts and you have to sum them up yourself.

This small change fixed the issue for me:

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

Notice the + after \s which will consume all whitespaces from the name to the date.

Actually adding this answer as much for my own rememberance as for helping anyone else, since this is at least the second time I google the subject :)

• Edit 2019-01-23 Added --show-email to git blame -w to aggregate on email instead, since some people use different Name formats on different computers, and sometimes two people with the same name are working in the same git.

Answer 9

Here's a short one-liner that produces stats for all authors. It's much faster than Dan's solution above at https://stackoverflow.com/a/20414465/1102119 (mine has time complexity O(N) instead of O(NM) where N is the number of commits, and M the number of authors).

git log --no-merges --pretty=format:%an --numstat | awk '/./ && !author { author = $0; next } author { ins[author] += $1; del[author] += $2 } /^$/ { author = ""; next } END { for (a in ins) { printf "%10d %10d %10d %s\n", ins[a] - del[a], ins[a], del[a], a } }' | sort -rn

Answer 10

@mmrobins @AaronM @ErikZ @JamesMishra provided variants that all have an problem in common: they ask git to produce a mixture of info not intended for script consumption, including line contents from repository on the same line, then match the mess with a regexp.

This is a problem when some lines aren't valid UTF-8 text, and also when some lines happen to match the regexp (this happened here).

Here's a modified line that doesn't have these problems. It requests git to output data cleanly on separate lines, which makes it easy to filter what we want robustly:

git ls-files -z | xargs -0n1 git blame -w --line-porcelain | grep -a "^author " | sort -f | uniq -c | sort -n

You can grep for other strings, like author-mail, committer, etc.

Perhaps first do export LC_ALL=C (assuming bash) to force byte-level processing (this also happens to speed up grep tremendously from the UTF-8-based locales).

Answer 11

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

Answer 12

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>
=====================================================

Answer 13

In addition to Charles Bailey's answer, you might want to add the -C parameter to the commands. Otherwise file renames count as lots of additions and removals (as many as the file has lines), even if the file content was not modified.

To illustrate, here is a commit with lots of files being moved around from one of my projects, when using the git log --oneline --shortstat command:

9052459 Reorganized project structure
 43 files changed, 1049 insertions(+), 1000 deletions(-)

And here the same commit using the git log --oneline --shortstat -C command which detects file copies and renames:

9052459 Reorganized project structure
 27 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)

In my opinion the latter gives a more realistic view of how much impact a person has had on the project, because renaming a file is a much smaller operation than writing the file from scratch.

Answer 14

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

Answer 15

this is the best way and it also gives you a clear picture of total number of commits by all the user

git shortlog -s -n

Answer 16

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)

Answer 17

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};
}

Answer 18

Save your logs into file using:

git log --author="<authorname>" --oneline --shortstat > logs.txt

For Python lovers:

with open(r".\logs.txt", "r", encoding="utf8") as f:
    files = insertions = deletions = 0
    for line in f:
        if ' changed' in line:
            line = line.strip()
            spl = line.split(', ')
            if len(spl) > 0:
                files += int(spl[0].split(' ')[0])
            if len(spl) > 1:
                insertions += int(spl[1].split(' ')[0])
            if len(spl) > 2:
                deletions += int(spl[2].split(' ')[0])

    print(str(files).ljust(10) + ' files changed')
    print(str(insertions).ljust(10) + ' insertions')
    print(str(deletions).ljust(10) + ' deletions')

Your outputs would be like:

225        files changed
6751       insertions
1379       deletions

Answer 19

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

Answer 20

The best tool so far I identfied is gitinspector. It give the set report per user, per week etc You can install like below with npm

npm install -g gitinspector

The links to get the more details

https://www.npmjs.com/package/gitinspector

https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector/wiki/Documentation

https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector

example commands are

gitinspector -lmrTw 
gitinspector --since=1-1-2017 etc

Answer 21

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.

Answer 22

This script here will do it. Put it into authorship.sh, chmod +x it, and you're all set.

#!/bin/sh
declare -A map
while read line; do
    if grep "^[a-zA-Z]" <<< "$line" > /dev/null; then
        current="$line"
        if [ -z "${map[$current]}" ]; then 
            map[$current]=0
        fi
    elif grep "^[0-9]" <<<"$line" >/dev/null; then
        for i in $(cut -f 1,2 <<< "$line"); do
            map[$current]=$((map[$current] + $i))
        done
    fi
done <<< "$(git log --numstat --pretty="%aN")"

for i in "${!map[@]}"; do
    echo -e "$i:${map[$i]}"
done | sort -nr -t ":" -k 2 | column -t -s ":"

Answer 23

You want Git blame.

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

Answer 24

The question asked for information on a specific author, but many of the answers were solutions that returned ranked lists of authors based on their lines of code changed.

This was what I was looking for, but the existing solutions were not quite perfect. In the interest of people that may find this question via Google, I've made some improvements on them and made them into a shell script, which I display below.

There are no dependencies on either Perl or Ruby. Furthermore, whitespace, renames, and line movements are taken into account in the line change count. Just put this into a file and pass your Git repository as the first parameter.

#!/bin/bash
git --git-dir="$1/.git" log > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 128 ]
then
    echo "Not a git repository!"
    exit 128
else
    echo -e "Lines  | Name\nChanged|"
    git --work-tree="$1" --git-dir="$1/.git" ls-files -z |\
    xargs -0n1 git --work-tree="$1" --git-dir="$1/.git" blame -C -M  -w |\
    cut -d'(' -f2 |\
    cut -d2 -f1 |\
    sed -e "s/ \{1,\}$//" |\
    sort |\
    uniq -c |\
    sort -nr
fi