Finding most changed files in Git

Question

How can I show files in Git which change most often?

Answer 1

I noticed that both Mark’s and sehe’s answers do not --follow the files, that is to say they stop once they reach a file rename. This script will be much slower, but will work for that purpose.

git ls-files |
while read aa
do
  printf . >&2
  set $(git log --follow --oneline "$aa" | wc)
  printf '%s\t%s\n' $1 "$aa"
done > bb
echo
sort -nr bb
rm bb

git-most.sh