Is there any easy way to calculate the number of lines changed between two commits in Git?
I know I can do a git diff, and count the lines, but this seems tedious. I'd also like to know how I can do this, including only my own commits in the line counts.
You want the --stat option of git diff, or if you're looking to parse this in a script, the --numstat option.
git diff --stat <commit-ish> <commit-ish> --stat produces the human-readable output you're used to seeing after merges; --numstat produces a nice table layout that scripts can easily interpret.
I somehow missed that you were looking to do this on multiple commits at the same time - that's a task for git log. Ron DeVera touches on this, but you can actually do a lot more than what he mentions. Since git log internally calls the diff machinery in order to print requested information, you can give it any of the diff stat options - not just --shortstat. What you likely want to use is:
git log --author="Your name" --stat <commit1>..<commit2> but you can use --numstat or --shortstat as well. git log can also select commits in a variety other ways - have a look at the documentation. You might be interested in things like --since (rather than specifying commit ranges, just select commits since last week) and --no-merges (merge commits don't actually introduce changes), as well as the pretty output options (--pretty=oneline, short, medium, full...).
Here's a one-liner to get total changes instead of per-commit changes from git log (change the commit selection options as desired - this is commits by you, from commit1 to commit2):
git log --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="Your Name" commit1..commit2 | awk 'NF==3 {plus+=$1; minus+=$2} END {printf("+%d, -%d\n", plus, minus)}' (you have to let git log print some identifying information about the commit; I arbitrarily chose the hash, then used awk to only pick out the lines with three fields, which are the ones with the stat information)
git diff --shortstat <commit1> <commit2> was the one I wanted.
--since and --until is something like: yesterday, 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour 1 second ago, or 1979-02-26 18:30:00<commit-ish> - it works with anything that represents a commit, including literal commits, branches, tags, and refs in general. See also stackoverflow.com/questions/23303549/…git diff --shortstat gives you just the number of lines changed and added. This only works with unstaged changes. To compare against a branch:
git diff --shortstat some-branch 
git add, make sure to do git diff --shortstat --cached
git merge-base as part of your command. You probably just have a newer master branch than what your feature_branch was originally based on, is all, so you need to do git diff against the old base upon which your feature branch was based. That can be found with git merge-base, like this: sample command: git diff --shortstat $(git merge-base HEAD master) HEAD. Sample output: 13 files changed, 955 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-). Good. That's correct. This: git diff --shortstat master, however, shows: 1643 files changed, 114890 insertions(+), 16943 deletions(-).
For the lazy, use git log --stat.
-10 to show the previous ten commits.
Q to return to the terminal.git diff --stat commit1 commit2 EDIT: You have to specify the commits as well (without parameters it compares the working directory against the index). E.g.
git diff --stat HEAD^ HEAD to compare the parent of HEAD with HEAD.
diff-index - the diff frontend can handle everything; the case of diff-index is covered by the --cached/--staged, I believe. (And there's no way to use diff-index to compare two arbitrary commits as the OP asked.)
git diff --stat HEAD
HEAD~n, where n is how far you want to go back. git diff --stat HEAD~5 HEAD will show combined stats for the last 5 commits relative to HEAD.Short statistics about the last commit :
git diff --shortstat HEAD~1 HEAD In my case, this gives me the following information:
254 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 10773 deletions(-) Insertions and deletions are affected lines.
I just solved this problem for myself, so I'll share what I came up with. Here's the end result:
> git summary --since=yesterday total: 114 file changes, 13800 insertions(+) 638 deletions(-) The underlying command looks like this:
git log --numstat --format="" "$@" | awk '{files += 1}{ins += $1}{del += $2} END{print "total: "files" files, "ins" insertions(+) "del" deletions(-)"}' Note the $@ in the log command to pass on your arguments such as --author="Brian" or --since=yesterday.
Escaping the awk to put it into a git alias was messy, so instead, I put it into an executable script on my path (~/bin/git-stat-sum), then used the script in the alias in my .gitconfig:
[alias] summary = !git-stat-sum \"$@\" And it works really well. One last thing to note is that file changes is the number of changes to files, not the number of unique files changed. That's what I was looking for, but it may not be what you expect.
Here's another example or two
git summary --author=brian git summary master..dev # combine them as you like git summary --author=brian master..dev git summary --all Really, you should be able to replace any git log command with git summary.
summary = "!git log --numstat --format=\"\" \"$@\" | awk '{files += 1}{ins += $1}{del += $2} END{print \"total: \"files\" files, \"ins\" insertions(+) \"del\" deletions(-)\"}' #"
git-summary and it's in your path, you can call it as git summary without the alias.Good one to summarize the year
git diff --shortstat <first commit number of the year> HEAD get results 270 files changed, 19175 insertions(+), 1979 deletions(-)
Assuming that you want to compare all of your commits between abcd123 (the first commit) and wxyz789 (the last commit), inclusive:
git log wxyz789^..abcd123 --oneline --shortstat --author="Mike Surname" This gives succinct output like:
abcd123 Made things better 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-) wxyz789 Made things more betterer 26 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) 
--shortstat flag is awesome, it works with git diff though (not git log).
Another way to get all change log in a specified period of time
git log --author="Tri Nguyen" --oneline --shortstat --before="2017-03-20" --after="2017-03-10" Output:
2637cc736 Revert changed code 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) ba8d29402 Fix review 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) With a long output content, you can export to file for more readable
git log --author="Tri Nguyen" --oneline --shortstat --before="2017-03-20" --after="2017-03-10" > /mnt/MyChangeLog.txt 
git log --numstat just gives you only the numbers
to get quickly how many files have been changed and lines added, just run.
git diff --shortstat HEAD If you want to see the changes including the # of lines that changed between your branch and another branch,
git diff the_other_branch_name --stat Though all above answers are correct, below one is handy to use if you need count of last many commits
below one is to get count of last 5 commits
git diff $(git log -5 --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat
to get count of last 10 commits
git diff $(git log -10 --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat
generic - change N with count of last many commits you need
git diff $(git log -N --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat
to get count of all commits since start
git diff $(git log --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat
I wanted to have the insertions and deletions go into the sum, in case someone else needs the same here goes:
# get the log filter useless parts calculate the sum and print it git log --numstat | grep -vE '^[^0-9]' | awk '{sum += $1 + $2} END {print sum}' This is not as versatile as some of the other solutions (for example the one undefined posted), but gives just a bare number, which was nice for my use case
git diff --stat will double-count modified lines. If this is a problem for you, you can do this instead:
git diff | diffstat -Cm This will give you the same output, except that it will [try to] differentiate between added+deleted lines and modified lines.
This command will compare local files with remote files
git diff --stat If you want to check the number of insertions, deletions & commits, between two branches or commits.
using commit id's:
git log <commit-id>..<commit-id> --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="<author-name>" | awk 'NF==3 {added+=$1; deleted+=$2} NF==1 {commit++} END {printf("total lines added: +%d\ntotal lines deleted: -%d\ntotal commits: %d\n", added, deleted, commit)}' using branches:
git log <parent-branch>..<child-branch> --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="<author-name>" | awk 'NF==3 {added+=$1; deleted+=$2} NF==1 {commit++} END {printf("total lines added: +%d\ntotal lines deleted: -%d\ntotal commits: %d\n", added, deleted, commit)}' Example:
using commit id's:
git log c9344e0be05b8038c244a4e9a531a199b961699c..947d05662b3b418cfaaa576d1e9585912a4e52dc --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="Krishna Chaitanya Surapaneni" | awk 'NF==3 {added+=$1; deleted+=$2} NF==1 {commit++} END {printf("total lines added: +%d\ntotal lines deleted: -%d\ntotal commits: %d\n", added, deleted, commit)}' output:-
total lines added: +91 total lines deleted: -3 total commits: 7 using branches:
git log main..v3.2.0 --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="Krishna Chaitanya Surapaneni" | awk 'NF==3 {added+=$1; deleted+=$2} NF==1 {commit++} END {printf("total lines added: +%d\ntotal lines deleted: -%d\ntotal commits: %d\n", added, deleted, commit)}' output:-
total lines added: +23 total lines deleted: -3 total commits: 2 This repo -> https://github.com/kcsurapaneni/food-delivery-backend/tree/main has been used for the example.
<author-name>. You can always share an example by taking any of the open source project, so that I can cross check your claim.If you just want totals between two points (commits, tags, or branches):
git diff --shortstat <from> <to> To count the number of lines since the branch was created:
git diff --shortstat origin/HEAD... 