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Created February 16, 2011 19:04
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Bash script to generate churn counts in git repo
churn number and file name
git log --all -M -C --name-only | grep -E '^(app|lib)/' | sort | uniq -c | sort | awk 'BEGIN {print "count,file"} {print $1 "," $2}'
churn number and file name w/ limiting to last n commits
git log --all -n 5000 -M -C --name-only | grep -E '^spec/models' | sort | uniq -c | sort | awk 'BEGIN {print "count,file"} {print $1 "," $2}'
graph of churn number and frequency
git log --all -M -C --name-only | grep -E '^(app|lib)/' | sort | uniq -c | sort | awk '{print $1}' | uniq -c | sort | awk 'BEGIN { print "frequency,churn_count"} { print $1,$2}'
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Xodarap commented Mar 9, 2017

If you add -n to the final sort it will sort numerically instead of alphabetically

@fuhrmanator
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If you remove -all it allows specifying an SHA1 in the log as churn up to that SHA1.

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I just found https://github.com/AnAppAMonth/git-churn, which is a python solution giving a more detailed interpretation of churn (additions, subtractions).

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flacle commented Nov 2, 2020

Solutions that I've found online looked at changes to files irrespective whether these are new changes or edits to existing lines of code. Hence I made this solution: https://github.com/flacle/truegitcodechurn/

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