How to generate stats for a GitHub project?

Question

Is there an easy/efficient way to generate some high-level reports for a particular GitHub project?

e.g. lines of code committed over time, top contributors, etc

Answer 1

I am the author of weave-gitstats. Its opensource and based on weave. Most git statistics generators like gitstats or the statistics provided by github are "static", they don't have drilldown functionality, filtering and are limited to some default graphs. Weave-gistats provides a lot of dynamic dashboards that allow you to filter on eg year, author and allow you to create your own graphs using your own criteria.