Number of commits in a git repository

Question

A 5 month project of mine is nearing its end and as a fan of pointless statistics,
I'd like to know how many commits have been made since the repository's inception.

How do I find that out?

Notes:

1. I know there is no one repository, I'm just interested in the local version.

2. This is trivial in subversion, as the revision identifier seems to be the commit number.

Answer 1

To get the number of commits on the current branch:

 git log --pretty=oneline | wc -l 

For a more complete count, use:

 git rev-list --all | wc -l 

See the docmentation for git rev-list for details on specifying objects to count.

It is tempting to try something like:

 find .git/objects -type f | wc -l 

but this will not count packed objects. It's best to stick with git rev-list.