Generating statistics from Git repository

commits per author

git shortlog -s -n 

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.

I'm doing a git repository statistics generator in ruby, it's called git_stats.

You can find examples generated for some repositories on project page.

Here is a list of what it can do:

• General statistics
  • Total files (text and binary)
  • Total lines (added and deleted)
  • Total commits
  • Authors
• Activity (total and per author)
  • Commits by date
  • Commits by hour of day
  • Commits by day of week
  • Commits by hour of week
  • Commits by month of year
  • Commits by year
  • Commits by year and month
• Authors
  • Commits by author
  • Lines added by author
  • Lines deleted by author
  • Lines changed by author
• Files and lines
  • By date
  • By extension

If you have any idea what to add or improve please let me know, I would appreciate any feedback.