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?

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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.

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This is great, thanks!

Thank you. It's very helpful

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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

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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

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