GitStats - git history statistics generator

About

GitStats is a statistics generator for git (a distributed revision control system) repositories. It examines the repository and produces some interesting statistics from the history of it. Currently HTML is the only output format.

Also see the SourceForge project page.

Features

Here is a list of some statistics generated currently:

• General statistics: total files, lines, commits, authors.
• Activity: commits by hour of day, day of week, hour of week, month of year, year and month, and year.
• Authors: list of authors (name, commits (%), first commit date, last commit date, age), author of month, author of year.
• Files: file count by date, extensions
• Lines: Lines of Code by date

Examples

See the examples directory for example statistics generated for various projects.

Requirements

• Git
• Python
• Gnuplot

Getting GitStats

GitStats repository is hosted on both GitHub and Gitorious.

Using git

The recommended way to get GitStats is to clone it with git:

git clone git://github.com/hoxu/gitstats.git

The repository also contains the web site in the web branch.

As a tarball

Alternatively, you can download a tarball of the latest version.

Distro packaging

Debian

If you are running Debian Squeeze, Wheezy or Sid, you can install gitstats with:

apt-get install gitstats

But note that the version in Debian is most likely much older than the latest version available in git.

Fedora

On Fedora 17 or later and EL6 distributions that have the EPEL repository [1] enabled:

yum install gitstats

OS X

Homebrew contains a head-only recipe for gitstats:

brew install --HEAD homebrew/head-only/gitstats

License

Both the code and the web site are licensed under GPLv2/GPLv3.

Related projects

• git
• Projects that generate statistics for other version control systems: StatCVS, StatSVN. Note that you can use GitStats for other version control systems by importing them to git first.
• Gource, software version control visualization.
• code_swarm, organic software visualisation of project repositories.