git-statistics 0.1.3

Simple git commit statistics CLI tool

git-statistics

git-statistics is a lightweight command-line tool for analyzing Git commit history. It provides quick insights into commit activity without requiring any external dependencies or configuration files.

The tool is designed to be simple, script-friendly, and easy to install, making it suitable for daily developer workflows, code reviews, and basic repository analytics.

Features

• Total commit count summary
• Commit activity grouped by day
• Top contributors by commit count
• Commit message type classification (feat, fix, chore, refactor, test, other)
• Detection of very short or empty commit messages
• Most frequent commit messages
• Busiest commit hour analysis
• Filters by time range and author
• Optional JSON output for automation
• Quiet mode for scripting and CI usage

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or newer
• Git installed and available in PATH
• Must be executed inside a Git repository

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install git-statistics

After installation, the git-stat command will be available globally.

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Basic Usage

Run inside a Git repository:

git-stat

This will print a human-readable summary including total commits, top days, top authors, and commit types.

Command Line Options

Show help

git-stat --help

Filter commits by time

git-stat --since 7d
git-stat --since 2024-01-01

Filter commits by author

git-stat --author "Your Name"

Exclude merge commits

git-stat --no-merge

Limit output size

git-stat --limit 3

Limits the number of results shown for top days, authors, and messages.

Show only commit type statistics

git-stat --type-only

Show most frequent commit messages

git-stat --top-messages

Show busiest commit hour

git-stat --busiest-hour

Outputs the hour of the day with the highest number of commits.

JSON output

git-stat --json

Useful for piping into other tools or scripts.

Quiet mode

git-stat --quiet

Outputs minimal key-value pairs suitable for CI and shell scripts.

Show version

git-stat --version

Exit Codes

The command exits with the following status codes:

• 0 — Successful execution
• 1 — Not a Git repository
• 2 — No commits matched the given filters

These exit codes are intended to make the tool easy to integrate into automation pipelines.

Example Output

Total commits: 124

Top days:
  2024-06-12: 15
  2024-06-10: 12

Top authors:
  Alice: 70
  Bob: 54

Commit types:
  feature: 40
  fix: 32
  chore: 18
  other: 34

Design Philosophy

• No configuration files
• No external Python dependencies
• Single-purpose, focused analytics
• Predictable and script-friendly output

The tool intentionally avoids complex visualization and long-running background processes.

License

MIT LICENSE

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Keep changes small, focused, and consistent with the existing CLI behavior.