How can I calculate the number of lines changed between two commits in Git?

Is there any easy way to calculate the number of lines changed between two commits in Git?

I know I can do a git diff, and count the lines, but this seems tedious. I'd also like to know how I can do this, including only my own commits in the line counts.

You want the --stat option of git diff, or if you're looking to parse this in a script, the --numstat option.

git diff --stat <commit-ish> <commit-ish>

--stat produces the human-readable output you're used to seeing after merges; --numstat produces a nice table layout that scripts can easily interpret.

I somehow missed that you were looking to do this on multiple commits at the same time - that's a task for git log. Ron DeVera touches on this, but you can actually do a lot more than what he mentions. Since git log internally calls the diff machinery in order to print requested information, you can give it any of the diff stat options - not just --shortstat. What you likely want to use is:

git log --author="Your name" --stat <commit1>..<commit2>

but you can use --numstat or --shortstat as well. git log can also select commits in a variety other ways - have a look at the documentation. You might be interested in things like --since (rather than specifying commit ranges, just select commits since last week) and --no-merges (merge commits don't actually introduce changes), as well as the pretty output options (--pretty=oneline, short, medium, full...).

Here's a one-liner to get total changes instead of per-commit changes from git log (change the commit selection options as desired - this is commits by you, from commit1 to commit2):

git log --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="Your Name" commit1..commit2 | awk 'NF==3 {plus+=$1; minus+=$2} END {printf("+%d, -%d\n", plus, minus)}'

(you have to let git log print some identifying information about the commit; I arbitrarily chose the hash, then used awk to only pick out the lines with three fields, which are the ones with the stat information)

git diff --shortstat

gives you just the number of lines changed and added. This only works with unstaged changes. To compare against a branch:

git diff --shortstat some-branch

For the lazy, use git log --stat.

git diff --stat commit1 commit2

EDIT: You have to specify the commits as well (without parameters it compares the working directory against the index). E.g.

git diff --stat HEAD^ HEAD

to compare the parent of HEAD with HEAD.

Assuming that you want to compare all of your commits between abcd123 (the first commit) and wxyz789 (the last commit), inclusive:

git log wxyz789^..abcd123 --oneline --shortstat --author="Mike Surname"

This gives succinct output like:

abcd123 Made things better
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)
wxyz789 Made things more betterer
 26 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

Another way to get all change log in a specified period of time

git log --author="Tri Nguyen" --oneline --shortstat --before="2017-03-20" --after="2017-03-10"

Output:

2637cc736 Revert changed code
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
ba8d29402 Fix review
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

With a long output content, you can export to file for more readable

git log --author="Tri Nguyen" --oneline --shortstat --before="2017-03-20" --after="2017-03-10" > /mnt/MyChangeLog.txt

I just solved this problem for myself, so I'll share what I came up with. Here's the end result:

> git summary --since=yesterday
total: 114 file changes, 13800 insertions(+) 638 deletions(-)

The underlying command looks like this:

git log --numstat --format="" "$@" | awk '{files += 1}{ins += $1}{del += $2} END{print "total: "files" files, "ins" insertions(+) "del" deletions(-)"}'

Note the $@ in the log command to pass on your arguments such as --author="Brian" or --since=yesterday.

Escaping the awk to put it into a git alias was messy, so instead, I put it into an executable script on my path (~/bin/git-stat-sum), then used the script in the alias in my .gitconfig:

[alias]
	summary = !git-stat-sum \"$@\"

And it works really well. One last thing to note is that file changes is the number of changes to files, not the number of unique files changed. That's what I was looking for, but it may not be what you expect.

Here's another example or two

git summary --author=brian
git summary master..dev
# combine them as you like
git summary --author=brian master..dev
git summary --all

Really, you should be able to replace any git log command with git summary.

Short statistics about the last commit :

git diff --shortstat HEAD~1 HEAD

In my case, this gives me the following information:

 254 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 10773 deletions(-)

Insertions and deletions are affected lines.

git log --numstat 

just gives you only the numbers

If you want to see the changes including the # of lines that changed between your branch and another branch,

git diff the_other_branch_name --stat

Good one to summarize the year

git diff --shortstat <first commit number of the year> HEAD

get results 270 files changed, 19175 insertions(+), 1979 deletions(-)

Though all above answers are correct, below one is handy to use if you need count of last many commits

below one is to get count of last 5 commits

git diff $(git log -5 --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat

to get count of last 10 commits

git diff $(git log -10 --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat

generic - change N with count of last many commits you need

git diff $(git log -N --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat

to get count of all commits since start

git diff $(git log --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -1) --shortstat

If you want to check the number of insertions, deletions & commits, between two branches or commits.

using commit id's:

git log <commit-id>..<commit-id> --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="<author-name>" | awk 'NF==3 {added+=$1; deleted+=$2} NF==1 {commit++} END {printf("total lines added: +%d\ntotal lines deleted: -%d\ntotal commits: %d\n", added, deleted, commit)}'

using branches:

git log <parent-branch>..<child-branch> --numstat --pretty="%H" --author="<author-name>" | awk 'NF==3 {added+=$1; deleted+=$2} NF==1 {commit++} END {printf("total lines added: +%d\ntotal lines deleted: -%d\ntotal commits: %d\n", added, deleted, commit)}'