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A command to calculate lines of code in all tracked files in a Git repo

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Count lines in Git repo

	// Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822471/count-number-of-lines-in-a-git-repository

	$ git ls-files \| xargs wc -l

tomas-maciulis commented Jul 2, 2025 •

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To only include the lines of code, can simply do

git ls-files "*.go" | xargs cat | grep -v '^\s*$' | grep -v '^\s*#' | wc -l

Just replace .go with your language's file extension. This excludes blank lines, configurations and comments so it presents an accurate number of actual lines of code.

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