How can I graph the Lines of Code history for git repo?

Question

Basically I want to get the number of lines-of-code in the repository after each commit.

The only (really crappy) ways I have found is to use git filter-branch to run wc -l *, and a script that runs git reset --hard on each commit, then runs wc -l

To make it a bit clearer, when the tool is run, it would output the lines of code of the very first commit, then the second and so on. This is what I want the tool to output (as an example):

me@something:~/$ gitsloc --branch master 10 48 153 450 1734 1542 

I've played around with the ruby 'git' library, but the closest I found was using the .lines() method on a diff, which seems like it should give the added lines (but does not: it returns 0 when you delete lines for example)

require 'rubygems' require 'git'  total = 0 g = Git.open(working_dir = '/Users/dbr/Desktop/code_projects/tvdb_api')      last = nil g.log.each do |cur|   diff = g.diff(last, cur)   total = total + diff.lines   puts total   last = cur end 

Answer 1

You might also consider gitstats, which generates this graph as an html file.