How to generate stats for a GitHub project?

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user217562 picture user217562 · Jul 7, 2011 · Viewed 50.2k times · Source

Is there an easy/efficient way to generate some high-level reports for a particular GitHub project?

e.g. lines of code committed over time, top contributors, etc

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Jul 7, 2011

You can try applying gitstats to a cloned repo of your GitHub repo.

See for example the activity of the Git repo itself, with many data like the commits per year/month:

Commits by year/month

See also "Looking at Git Statistics", with the GitHub 'yearly_stats' for a simple little script.

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