Finding most changed files in Git

Question

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

Answer 1

git whatchanged --all | \grep "\.\.\." | cut -d' ' -f5- | cut -f2- | sort | uniq -c | sort

If you only want to see your files add --author to git whatchanged --author=name --all.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

This is a windows version

git log --pretty=format: --name-only  > allfiles.csv

then open in excel

A1: FileName
A2: isVisibleFilename  >> =IFERROR(IF(C2>0,TRUE,FALSE),FALSE)
A3: DotLocation >> =FIND("@",SUBSTITUTE(A2,".","@",(LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,".","")))/LEN(".")))
A4: HasExt       >> =C2>1
A5: TYPE        >> =IF(D2=TRUE,MID(A2,C2+1,18),"")

create pivot table

values: Type
  Filter: isFilename = true
  Rows : Type
  Sub : FileName

click [Count Of TYPE] -> Sort -> Sort Largest To Smallest

Answer 4

This is probably obvious, but, the queries provided will show all files, but, perhaps you're not interested in knowing that your configuration or project files are the most updated. A simple grep will isolate to your code files, for example:

git log --pretty=format: --name-only | grep .cs$ | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -20

Answer 5

For powershell, assuming you got git bash installed

git log --pretty=format: --name-only | sort | uniq -c | sort -Descending | select -First 10

Answer 6

We can also find out files changed between two commits or branches, for e.g.

git log  --pretty=format: --name-only <source_branch>...<target_branch> | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -50