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A command to calculate lines of code in all tracked files in a Git repo
// Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822471/count-number-of-lines-in-a-git-repository
$ git ls-files | xargs wc -l
@tseemann
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I made an app to do it completely remotely, on a forked repo, without having to clone it - https://klock.herokuapp.com/

This does not work anymore.
Does it have a new home?

@Narayanbhat166
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I made an app to do it completely remotely, on a forked repo, without having to clone it - https://klock.herokuapp.com/

This does not work anymore. Does it have a new home?

I guess this was a free app. Heroku recently removed hosting apps for free on their platform

@alexivkin
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alexivkin commented Apr 9, 2023

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

This does not work anymore. Does it have a new home?

I guess this was a free app. Heroku recently removed hosting apps for free on their platform

author here. yes it was and yes they killed it. I can resurrect it on another free platform if there is interest in it.
or you can just run it locally - https://github.com/alexivkin/klock

@Dicklesworthstone
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I thought I'd add my own command here in case it helps anyone:

git ls-files | grep -vE '\.(webp|ttf|json|png|js)$' | xargs wc -l | sort -nr

This counts lines of code ignoring various image file types, fonts, json/js (I'm counting code in a python project and the .js would distort things). It sorts it by size for you too.

@Animeshz
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Or instead of filtering via inversion filter, you can

git ls-files | xargs -I{} sh -c "file '{}' | grep -q text && echo '{}'" | sort -nr

@louika
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louika commented Nov 12, 2023

omg thank you ❤️

@andyg2
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andyg2 commented Feb 22, 2024

I find this pretty useful (for public repos) https://codetabs.com/count-loc/count-loc-online.html

Plus there's an open API: https://api.codetabs.com/v1/loc?github=bluesky-social/social-app

[
 {
  "language": "TypeScript",
  "files": 620,
  "lines": 83349,
  "blanks": 5334,
  "comments": 2259,
  "linesOfCode": 75756
 },
 {
  "language": "JavaScript",
  "files": 23,
  "lines": 705,
  "blanks": 40,
  "comments": 46,
  "linesOfCode": 619
 },
 {
  "language": "SVG",
  "files": 23,
  "lines": 55,
  "blanks": 0,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 55
 },
 {
  "language": "Markdown",
  "files": 13,
  "lines": 689,
  "blanks": 201,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 488
 },
 {
  "language": "Go",
  "files": 9,
  "lines": 903,
  "blanks": 114,
  "comments": 64,
  "linesOfCode": 725
 },
 {
  "language": "JSON",
  "files": 9,
  "lines": 512,
  "blanks": 0,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 512
 },
 {
  "language": "Patch",
  "files": 9,
  "lines": 3968,
  "blanks": 17,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 3951
 },
 {
  "language": "YAML",
  "files": 8,
  "lines": 466,
  "blanks": 43,
  "comments": 30,
  "linesOfCode": 393
 },
 {
  "language": "HTML",
  "files": 7,
  "lines": 707,
  "blanks": 42,
  "comments": 16,
  "linesOfCode": 649
 },
 {
  "language": "Shell",
  "files": 5,
  "lines": 126,
  "blanks": 24,
  "comments": 25,
  "linesOfCode": 77
 },
 {
  "language": "Swift",
  "files": 5,
  "lines": 383,
  "blanks": 55,
  "comments": 41,
  "linesOfCode": 287
 },
 {
  "language": "gitignore",
  "files": 3,
  "lines": 124,
  "blanks": 23,
  "comments": 31,
  "linesOfCode": 70
 },
 {
  "language": "Makefile",
  "files": 2,
  "lines": 81,
  "blanks": 19,
  "comments": 4,
  "linesOfCode": 58
 },
 {
  "language": "Plain Text",
  "files": 2,
  "lines": 13,
  "blanks": 1,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 12
 },
 {
  "language": "C Header",
  "files": 1,
  "lines": 3,
  "blanks": 0,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 3
 },
 {
  "language": "Dockerfile",
  "files": 1,
  "lines": 74,
  "blanks": 17,
  "comments": 9,
  "linesOfCode": 48
 },
 {
  "language": "Gemfile",
  "files": 1,
  "lines": 6,
  "blanks": 2,
  "comments": 1,
  "linesOfCode": 3
 },
 {
  "language": "JSX",
  "files": 1,
  "lines": 9,
  "blanks": 1,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 8
 },
 {
  "language": "License",
  "files": 1,
  "lines": 7,
  "blanks": 3,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 4
 },
 {
  "language": "Objective C",
  "files": 1,
  "lines": 26,
  "blanks": 5,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 21
 },
 {
  "language": "TypeScript Typings",
  "files": 1,
  "lines": 8,
  "blanks": 0,
  "comments": 0,
  "linesOfCode": 8
 },
 {
  "language": "Total",
  "files": 745,
  "lines": 92214,
  "blanks": 5941,
  "comments": 2526,
  "linesOfCode": 83747
 }
]

@lucasortigoso
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lucasortigoso commented Mar 4, 2024

An improvement based on what has already been said, by the way thanks for the tip.

Line counter for child folders with aggregator removing image files (webp|ttf|png|jpg|jpeg) :

How to use:

bash counter.sh foldername

counter.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# Root Folder
root_dir=$1

#  Count initialization
total_lines=0

# Loop
for folder in "$root_dir"/*; do
    # Check is folder
    if [ -d "$folder" ] && [ ! "$(basename "$folder")" = ".*" ] && [ -d "$folder/.git" ]; then
        # Run count command
        lines_in_folder=$(cd "$folder"; git ls-files | grep -vE '\.(webp|ttf|png|jpg|jpeg)$' | sed 's/.*/"&"/' |  xargs wc -l | grep -o "[0-9]* total" | awk '{SUM += $1} END {print SUM}')
        current_branch=$(cd "$folder"; git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
        printf "%-80s -> %s lines\n" "$(basename "$folder") ($current_branch)" "$lines_in_folder"

        
        # Increment total lines
        total_lines=$((total_lines + lines_in_folder))
        
    fi
done

# Show total lines
echo "Total: $total_lines lines"

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