Question

I’m looking for some good tools/scripts that allow me to generate a few statistics from a git repository. I’ve seen this feature on some code hosting sites, and they contained information like…

• commits per author
• commits per day/week/year/etc.
• lines of code over time
• graphs
• … much more

Basically I just want to get an idea how much my project grows over time, which developer commits most code, and so on.

Answer 1

Beside GitStats (git history statistics generator) mentioned by xyld, written in Python and requiring Gnuplot for graphs, there is also

• gitstat (SourceForge) project (web-based git statistics interface), written in PHP and Perl,
• Git Statistics, aka gitstats (metrics framework designed to gather statistics on git repositories), written in Python, result of git-statistics project at Google Summer of Code 2008 This is not a web app
• gitinspector Is a rather new, CLI based Python tool for generating nice reports
• Hercules – native app without dependencies, written in Go, which specializes in advanced analysis types.