Count number of lines in a git repository

Question

How would I count the total number of lines present in all the files in a git repository?

git ls-files gives me a list of files tracked by git.

I'm looking for a command to cat all those files. Something like

git ls-files | [cat all these files] | wc -l

Answer 1

The best solution, to me anyway, is buried in the comments of @ephemient's answer. I am just pulling it up here so that it doesn't go unnoticed. The credit for this should go to @FRoZeN (and @ephemient).

git diff --shortstat `git hash-object -t tree /dev/null`

returns the total of files and lines in the working directory of a repo, without any additional noise. As a bonus, only the source code is counted - binary files are excluded from the tally.

The command above works on Linux and OS X. The cross-platform version of it is

git diff --shortstat 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904

That works on Windows, too.

For the record, the options for excluding blank lines,

• -w/--ignore-all-space,
• -b/--ignore-space-change,
• --ignore-blank-lines,
• --ignore-space-at-eol

don't have any effect when used with --shortstat. Blank lines are counted.

Answer 2

I use the following:

git grep ^ | wc -l

This searches all files versioned by git for the regex ^, which represents the beginning of a line, so this command gives the total number of lines!

Answer 3

This works as of cloc 1.68:

cloc --vcs=git

Answer 4

If you want this count because you want to get an idea of the project’s scope, you may prefer the output of CLOC (“Count Lines of Code”), which gives you a breakdown of significant and insignificant lines of code by language.

cloc $(git ls-files)

(This line is equivalent to git ls-files | xargs cloc. It uses sh’s $() command substitution feature.)

Sample output:

      20 text files.
      20 unique files.                              
       6 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.62  T=0.22 s (62.5 files/s, 2771.2 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                     files          blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Javascript                       2             13            111            309
JSON                             3              0              0             58
HTML                             2              7             12             50
Handlebars                       2              0              0             37
CoffeeScript                     4              1              4             12
SASS                             1              1              1              5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                            14             22            128            471
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You will have to install CLOC first. You can probably install cloc with your package manager – for example, brew install cloc with Homebrew.

cloc $(git ls-files) is often an improvement over cloc .. For example, the above sample output with git ls-files reports 471 lines of code. For the same project, cloc . reports a whopping 456,279 lines (and takes six minutes to run), because it searches the dependencies in the Git-ignored node_modules folder.

Answer 5

I was playing around with cmder (http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/) and I wanted to count the lines of html,css,java and javascript. While some of the answers above worked, or pattern in grep didn't - I found here (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37313/how-do-i-grep-for-multiple-patterns) that I had to escape it

So this is what I use now:

git ls-files | grep "\(.html\|.css\|.js\|.java\)$" | xargs wc -l

Answer 6

I did this:

git ls-files | xargs file | grep "ASCII" | cut -d : -f 1 | xargs wc -l

this works if you count all text files in the repository as the files of interest. If some are considered documentation, etc, an exclusion filter can be added.