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

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

Thank you!
Could not be more simple.

Tried this command on Mac and got "xargs: wc: Argument list too long" error. Is it because the git repo is too big?

Perfect! 🎉

Thanks!

@shic @mandiwise you can do the following if it's "too long" :)

git ls-files > listOfFiles
cat listOfFiles | xargs wc -l

does this reads the files from sub-directories ?

Yes it does @dextel2.

It's awesome😃

This is great, thanks!

Thank you. It's very helpful

http://line-count.herokuapp.com

Awesome!

Does anyone know if there is a way to exclude certain file types from this command? For example get lines of code for a repo but don't include certain file extensions (i.e. .png, .jpg, etc).
Or maybe just including the file extensions you are interested in (i.e. .js, .scss, etc)

@darrylgrant Just use grep -v <PATTERN_TO_IGNORE I.E to exclude .js files run git ls-files | grep -v ".js" | xargs wc -l

thank you

What do I need to do if I want to exclude multiple file types? Is it going to be something like this? git ls-files | grep -v .{js,css,html} | xargs wc -l

You're the best.

Perfect!

Lovely!

Super cool!

❤️

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Thank you! However, the console shows a large file list, then 150017 total, then again a large file list and then 38491 total . Somehow, the result is divided into several bins but I cannot figure out why. Nothing special happening in the files listed around the first XXXX total.

I also tried piping into a file like @funilrys did it, but the output was the same

@PhilLab If it's really like that you can then do something like this ...

git ls-files > listOfFiles
cat listOfFiles | xargs wc -l | grep total | xargs | awk '{lineNumber+=$1}END{print lineNumber}`

PowerShell git ls-files | %{ Get-Content -Path $_ } | measure

I get something liek this for every file:

wc: mining.R: open: No such file or directory

Thank you I remixed it to exclude certain types of files (like images) and folders (like external dependencies living in the repo) and put it in a git alias:

git config --local alias.count "! git ls-files | grep -Ev 'ios/Pods|.jpg|.png|.lock|.jar|.bat|.otf|.woff' | xargs wc -l"

then

git count

🎉

FWIW:

I used the following code to find the number of scripts, and lines of code.
`#########################
import os

all_files = [os.path.join(path, name) for path, subdirs, files in os.walk(os.getcwd()) for name in files if '.py' in name]

print(f'Number of python scripts',len(all_files))
for file in all_files:
print(file)

global_count = 0
for file_path in all_files:
count = len(open(file_path,encoding="utf8").readlines())
global_count = global_count+count

print('Total number of lines of code:',global_count)`

Hi all,

Quick question: Is there a technique where I could count the number of files (under a specific folder) in a GitHub repo?

P.S. I am looking to add a "file counter" to a folder in GitHub repo which has numerous files coming in every day.
Thank you!

@SandeepAswathnarayana it is almost the same command without xargs

This will return the number of all versionned files:
git ls-files | wc -l

you can limit what folders you want to include with:

git ls-files src test | wc -l

you can exclude some folders and/or files with:
git ls-files | grep -Ev 'assets|.jpg|.png' | wc -l

Thanks for reverting, @Em-AK. I want to add a code snippet to the GitHub folder which tracks the number of files in real-time so it's visible for any user on the repo. Do you have any specific suggestions for the same?
Just to make sure I have my intent right: I am not looking to fork the repo or use the cmd line for my personal use on the desktop.

@SandeepAswathnarayana in this case I think it should be possible to run a custom github action on every push to your branch of reference.
In the github action execute the command above, and print the result so that it will be visible in the "Actions" tab of the repo https://help.github.com/en/actions/building-actions/creating-a-docker-container-action

Thanks for the input, @Em-AK. I will give this a try using GitHub 'Actions'. I appreciate your time in this regard. Have a splendid week!

Or, try using this app I built https://github.com/CodHeK/analy.se , you can simply drag n drop your project folder, doesn't store your files on a server so is completely safe! 🥂

In case anyone needs to do this on a bare repository:

git ls-tree --full-tree -r HEAD --name-only | xargs -I '$' git show master:$ | wc -l

is working for me (or at least giving consistent results to the git ls-files version)

This worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

PowerShell git ls-files | %{ Get-Content -Path $_ } | measure

Nice. Thanks for that
git ls-files | %{ Get-Content -Path $_ } | Measure-Object -Line

What about cloc?

cloc $(git ls-files)

This is cool ! I want to do this for every commit ever on one of my repositories, is there a way to do that ? How could i loop through every commit ever ? (Only on the master branch)

This was helpful, but I needed to exclude images, and a few other common files. Thought I would "share with the class":

git ls-files --exclude-standard -- ':!:**/*.[pjs][npv]g' ':!:**/*.ai' ':!:.idea' ':!:**/*.eslintrc' ':!:package-lock.json' | xargs wc -l

':!:**/*.[pjs][npv]g' excludes all png, jpg and svg files.
':!:**/*.ai' excludes .ai files.
':!:.idea' excludes the .idea (WebStorm anyone?) folder.
':!:**/*.eslintrc' excludes .eslint files.
':!:package-lock.json' excludes the biggest offender of all (was over 1/2 my original count).

Thanks! ❤

Thanks 👍

I made an app to do it completely remotely, on a forked repo, without having to clone it - https://klock.herokuapp.com/

Helpful awesome. 👏

🥇 thanks a lot!!

perfect thanks!

Thanks!! 👍

Great!

you should try this https://api.github.com/repos/<user/repo>/languages
Replace <user/repo>

Genius

Amazing, thank you!

@PhilLab I had the same problem, but I solved it like this: git ls-files | xargs wc -l | grep -o "[0-9]* total" | awk '{SUM += $1} END {print SUM}'

Hi All,

Any Ide where I can exclude all the comments with the below command

$ git ls-files | xargs wc -l

I assume that the above command will give you list of lines of code including the comments , Any command to not include comments and only the line of code count.

this is a total LINE count in files found, not "lines of code". this will include comments and blank lines.
so, "A command to calculate lines of code in all tracked files in a Git repo" is not accurate.

you should try this https://api.github.com/repos/<user/repo>/languages
Replace <user/repo>

Super OP ❤️❤️

you should try this https://api.github.com/repos/<user/repo>/languages
Replace <user/repo>

Thanks, that's all you ever need!

Great

IMPORTANT

the url https://api.github.com/repos/<user/repo>/languages does not return number of lines but it returns charecters in a git repo.

I found this while working on an api, this was the data i got from all my repos:

I'm just a hobbyist dev and I'm sure I cannot write 13k lines of css. I copies all the css and went to character counter and found that it was number of charecters that was returned not lines