Number of commits on branch in git

Question

I\'m writing a small script and want to know how many commits I made on a current branch since it was created.

In this example I\'d have 2 commits made on chil

Answer 1

If you want to see how many commits you or anyone else has made, starting from your current HEAD, you can do:

git shortlog -sn

Example output:

   490  Donald Duck
   312  Some Developer
   274  John Doe
   144  Jane Doe
     5  Leet Hacker