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Our organisation is migrating from BitBucket to GitHub. We need to perform post-migration validation. Can someone please help with git commands for below:

  1. Get count of commits per repository. I have already tried below ones but they are not giving correct output:

    git rev-list --count [revision] git rev-list --all --count

  2. Get count of open/merged/declined/ total PRs per repository.

  3. Get count of number of lines in a git repository. (Tried this SO accepted answer but it's not giving correct output in my case https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822471/count-number-of-lines-in-a-git-repository#:~:text=Blank%20lines%20are%20counted.&text=This%20searches%20all%20files%20versioned,the%20total%20number%20of%20lines!&text=this%20works%20if%20you%20count,as%20the%20files%20of%20interest.)

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    Why do you distrust the output of git rev-list --all --count? ("they're not giving correct output") Commented Apr 27, 2021 at 7:46
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    Keep in mind that open/merged/declined/total PRs are not a property of the git repository itself. So whatever tool you use to migrate stuff needs to use BitBucket- and GitHub-specific APIs to transfer those. Commented Apr 27, 2021 at 7:48
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    doubling up on comment : can you explain what makes you say that git rev-list --count doesn't give the correct output ? more precisely : can you give more details on what actions you took (running it on your local working repository / on a fresh clone / on a colleague's clone / ... ) and what you expect (it looks like you expect to see a known number : is it a number that is displayed in bitbucket ? github ? your local repo ? ) Commented Apr 27, 2021 at 7:55
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    @RomainValeri I created a new repo to test the command. I created 3-4 branches and did few commits in each branch. I merged some PRs as well. I counted the commits for this repo manually and compared with the command output, it didn't match. Commented Apr 27, 2021 at 8:05
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    Additionally, try to write just 1 question in one post here. This question: "Get count of number of lines in a git repository" might be completely handled by "Get count of lines in files in a folder", but it depends on whether you think it might be different for a git repository, but it will warrant a completely set of answers and comments compared to counting commits. Commented Apr 27, 2021 at 8:13

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Rather than figuring out the commits count between two clones, you will be better off writing a script that compares branches and commit hashes.

You can run :

git ls-remote [url to any git repo]

to get a list of branches and references from a remote repository, and the current hash for each reference.

So you can run :

git ls-remote [url of bitbucket repo] > bitbucket.txt git ls-remote [url of github repo] > github.txt

and compare these two files, to see if all the commits you expect have been moved from one repo to the other.

As noted in the comment : data like "Issues" or "Merge Requests" are not stored in the git repo directly, and must be checked using some other tools -- probably tools that rely on github and bitbucket APIs to get that data.

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