I am working on a real mess of a project and we've been planning to refactor it for months but nobody has the time. I want to see which files are most modified because the features/codes contained in those files will have the priority on refactoring and increasing my productivity.
Is it possible to get number of times each file was modified since first commit or a specific week, in a table format or something, in git? If so, how?
To count the number of commits for each of your files, you could do something like this
#!/bin/bash for file in *.php; do echo $file git log --oneline -- $file | wc -l done "git log" is the key git command here.
Here are some git commands and options to look at
git log git log --oneline To get a log of changes for a specific file
git log -- filename To get a log of changes for a specific file during a specific date you can do
git log --after="2017-05-09T16:36:00-07:00" --before="2017-05-10T08:00:00-07:00" -- myfile You may want to try
git log --pretty=format you can look up all the different formats
You could get a private repository on github and push it all up there; that would be a nice graphical way to see all the changes for any of your changed files.
