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1 Adam Coulombe
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Parameter
-n
prints the results sorted in numeric order by the number of revisions.
To print the number of contributors we pipe the result of
git shortlog -s
to
wc -l
:
$ git shortlog -s | wc -l
The next question is a little more difficult to answer. First, we want to print the out-
put of the
git log
command in a special form. We want every line to contain only a
commit's date in the form
yyyy-mm-dd
. It can be accomplished by:
$ git log --pretty=format:%cd --date=short
The above command will produce the list of dates:
2013-04-22
2013-04-22
2013-04-20
2013-04-20
2013-04-18
...
The date of every commit will be present in the output. Let's remove the duplicates.
We can do it using the
uniq
command:
$ git log --pretty=format:%cd --date=short | uniq
Thus, we will find out the different dates when contributions to the project were
made. If we pipe the result to
wc -l
:
$ git log --pretty=format:%cd --date=short | uniq | wc -l
We then get the desired number of days.
