Which Git commit stats are easy to pull

Question

Previously I have enjoyed TortoiseSvn\'s ability to generate simple commit stats for a given SVN repository. I wonder what is available in Git and am particularly interested

Answer 1

First, you don't have to pull anything (as in network pull), because you have the whole repository and the whole history locally. I'm pretty sure there are tools that will give you statistics, but sometimes you can just be creative with the command lines. For instance, this (just out of my head) will give you the number of commits per user:

git log --pretty=format:%ae \
| gawk -- '{ ++c[$0]; } END { for(cc in c) printf "%5d %s\n",c[cc],cc; }'

Other statistics you asked for may need more thought put into it. You may want to see the tools available. Googling for git statistics points to the GitStats tool, which I have no experience with and even less idea of what it takes to get it run on windows, but you can try.