Personal Git Commit Statistics

http://stravid.com/articles/personal-git-commit-statistics/

by forknore • 15 years ago

30 15 15 years ago

jarofgreen5• 15 years ago

I once spent a weekend hacking together something like this.

http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2011/04/introducing-creepycoder/

The code was done over several quick sessions (there's a visualisation of that in the link above) so it's really scrappy, but it pulls out the timestamps of a programmers commits and presents that in several different formats. It uses Github API or just SVN log.

https://github.com/jarofgreen/CreepyCoder

I agree with you that LOC is not really a great metric.

Next I was going to look at separating variables in the data & comparing them - eg, see two programmers commit habits side-by-side.

I've also been to a talk by a company that pulled stats from commit logs, will try to find it and post it.

jarofgreen5• 15 years ago

This was the talk ... http://www.edinburgh.bcs.org/events/2010-11/110411.htm

masklinn• 15 years ago

> http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2011/04/introducing-creepycoder/

hg has a pretty great extension shipped with it doing that kind of stats collecting: churn. Git might have something similar already, no?

For instance, your graphs 2 and 3 (commits by hour of day and commits by day of week) can be obtained through the following (tested on pypy's repo):

    > hg -R pypy churn -csf "%H"
    00    850 **************                                                        
    01    534 *********
    02    385 ******
    03    299 *****
    04    202 ***
    05    181 ***
    06    217 ***
    07    449 *******
    08   1336 *********************
    09   2421 ***************************************
    10   2893 ***********************************************
    11   3295 *****************************************************
    12   3277 *****************************************************
    13   3596 **********************************************************
    14   3915 ***************************************************************
    15   4105 ******************************************************************
    16   3955 ****************************************************************
    17   3812 *************************************************************
    18   3259 ****************************************************
    19   2091 **********************************
    20   1713 ****************************
    21   1630 **************************
    22   1466 ************************
    23   1225 ********************

    > hg -R pypy churn -csf "%u"
    1   6985 ************************************************************           
    2   7741 *******************************************************************
    3   7594 ******************************************************************
    4   7404 ****************************************************************
    5   7470 *****************************************************************
    6   5213 *********************************************
    7   4699 *****************************************

(-c counts changesets rather than diff lines; -s sorts by aggregation key rather than resultcount; -f aggredates on an strftime-like dateformat)

jarofgreen5• 15 years ago

Cool, never used hg, thanks. Git might have a module; I've never seen it if it does. However, having it separate to git means we can pull in other data to build up a complete picture of the users activity - the comments made in an issue tracker for instance.

thenduks3• 15 years ago

Maybe I'm missing something about the desired data, but why not just do something like:

    git shortlog -s | grep "My Name"

This shows how many commits you've made on a repo. Omit the grep to see everyone's counts.

jarofgreen5• 15 years ago

But then it's just a list of dates and its hard to see any patterns - that was my motivation ... I wanted graphs, iCal data you can put on a calendar and so on.

thenduks3• 15 years ago

A list of dates?

Using my command I showed above I get the following output:

      2791	Ryan Funduk

Still, yea, if you want data you could put on a calendar then I would instead suggest `git log` with `pretty-format` which you could then parse pretty easily.

Docs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-log.html

Eg, here's a command that will output a csv with the commit sha, message, unix timestamp and committer name:

    git log --pretty=format:'"%h", "%s", "%at", "%an"' | grep "Your Name"

stravid2• 15 years ago

That's a perfectly fine solution, but not exactly what I want. With this solution I would have to keep a list of repositories up to date. And in order to update my data I would always need to clone every repository, run the command and put all numbers together.

I like automation, so I looked for a different solution.

thenduks3• 15 years ago

Fair enough. I wouldn't consider having a clone of the repo to be a blocker. You could very easily automate the cloning, reporting, deleting of a repo.

orta• 15 years ago

The question is how does he get all the data? I have a bash function that does a git commit, and sends off the message / repo name to a webserver that provides a reasonable interface for it.

http://cl.ly/3u3w1h3x2e1P1L3d0g31

amujumdar• 15 years ago

You could use Ohloh. As an example, here is one of stravid's projects on Ohloh - https://www.ohloh.net/p/stravids_mapgenerator

znq• 15 years ago

If you don't mind having your statistics in public, have a look at Masterbranch http://www.masterbranch.com/

It also serves very well as a CV for programmers.

xbryanx• 15 years ago

I love this collection of Python scripts to provide Git stats for my projects. Appropriately named http://gitstats.sourceforge.net/

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