NAME¶

gitstats - git history statistics generator

SYNOPSIS¶

gitstats [options] <repository dir> <output dir>

DESCRIPTION¶

gitstats is a statistics generator for git(1) repositories. It examines the repository and produces some interesting statistics from the history of it. Currently HTML is the only output format.

OPTIONS¶

-c option=value Override a default configuration value. Defaults can be seen by running gitstats without parameters.

Values:¶

authors_top

How many top authors to show.

commit_begin, commit_end

Specify a commit range to generate statistics from. You can specify only commit_end limit statistics to a certain commit or another branch.

max_authors

How many authors to show in the list of authors.

max_domains

How many domains to show in domains by commits.

max_ext_length

Maximum file extension length.

style

CSS stylesheet to use.

FAQ¶

Q: How do I generate statistics of a non-master branch? A: Use "-c commit_end=web" parameter. Q: I have files in my git repository that I would like to exclude from the statistics, how do I do that? A: At the moment the only way is to use git-filter-branch(1) to create a temporary repository and generate the statistics from that.

AUTHORS¶

gitstats was written by Heikki Hokkanen and others. See the git repository at http://repo.or.cz/w/gitstats.git for an up-to-date full list of contributors.

WWW¶

http://gitstats.sourceforge.net/

SEE ALSO¶

git(1)