Working with Well-Known Repositories - Git Recipes - page 35

Listing 2-8. The command that prints the number of commits in the repository
$ git log --pretty=oneline | wc -l
Listing 2-9. The command that prints the number of contributors
$ git shortlog -s | wc -l
Listing 2-10. The command that produces the number of days during which contribu-
tions were made
$ git log --pretty=format:%cd --date=short | uniq | wc -l
Listing 2-11. The command that returns the amount of space used by the git directory
$ du -h -s .git
Listing 2-12. The command that returns the amount of space used by the working dir-
ectory
$ du -h -s --exclude=.git
Listing 2-13. The command that produces the number of files in the working directory
$ git ls-files | wc -l
Hint Linux and Windows version of du both support --exclude parameter. But
some other systems, such as BSD, use other options. In BSD, exclusions are set with -I
option ( I stands for Ignore).
How It Works
The answers to the above questions can be found using the following commands: