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Created March 20, 2012 19:20
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Find the most used verbs in your Git commit messages
[alias]
verbs = !git log --pretty=format:'%s' | cut -d \" \" -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
$ git verbs
440 Add
350 Merge
245 Fix
128 Remove
91 Improve
66 Use
@zanshin
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zanshin commented Mar 21, 2012

Outstanding. Great fun.

While I was able to add this as an alias in my .zshrc, I wasn't able to add it to my .gitconfig. It kept complaining about one of the pipes (|).

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remi commented Aug 21, 2012

I updated the gist to add a handy alias 😄

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Awesome!!

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