Count the number of commits on a Git branch

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I found this answer already  Number of commits on branch in git but that assumes that the branch was created from master   How can I count the number of commits along a branch without relying on that assumption   In SVN this is trivial  but for some reason is really difficult to figure out in git

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You can also do     git log   grep commit   wc -l  and get the result back

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As the OP references Number of commits on branch in git I want to add that the given answers there also work  with any other branch  at least since git version 2 17 1  and seemingly more reliably than the answer by Peter van der Does    working correctly   git checkout current-development-branch git rev-list --no-merges --count master   62 git checkout -b testbranch 2 git rev-list --no-merges --count current-development-branch   0   The last command gives zero commits as expected since I just created the branch  The command before gives me the real number of commits on my development-branch minus the merge-commit s   not working correctly   git checkout current-development-branch git rev-list --no-merges --count HEAD 361 git checkout -b testbranch 1 git rev-list --no-merges --count HEAD 361   In both cases I get the number of all commits in the development branch and master from which the branches  indirectly  descend

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To count the commits for the branch you are on   git rev-list --count HEAD   for a branch  git rev-list --count  lt branch-name gt    If you want to count the commits on a branch that are made since you created the branch  git rev-list --count HEAD   lt branch-name gt    This will count all commits ever made that are not on the branch-name as well   Examples  git checkout master git checkout -b test  lt We do 3 commits gt  git rev-list --count HEAD  master   Result  3  If your branch comes of a branch called develop   git checkout develop git checkout -b test  lt We do 3 commits gt  git rev-list --count HEAD  develop   Result  3  Ignoring Merges  If you merge another branch into the current branch without fast forward and you do the above  the merge is also counted  This is because for git a merge is a commit   If you don t want to count these commits add --no-merges   git rev-list --no-merges --count HEAD  develop

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You can use this command which uses awk on git bash unix to get the number of commits      git shortlog -s -n   awk   Author    print  1

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Well  the selected answer doesn t work if you forked your branch out of unspecific branch  i e   not master or develop     Here I offer a another way I am using in my pre-push git hooks     Run production build before push echo   INFO  run  git hooks pre-push   echo   INFO  Check if only one commit     file  git hooks pre-push currentBranch   git symbolic-ref HEAD   sed -e  s            1     gitLog   git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate  --first-parent HEAD   commitCountOfCurrentBranch 0 startCountCommit    baseBranch     while read -r line  do        if git log line started with something like    commit aaface7  origin BRANCH NAME   or  commit ae4f131  HEAD - gt  BRANCH NAME         that means it s on our branch BRANCH NAME      matchedCommitSubstring         line         space   commit   space                  amp  amp  echo   BASH REMATCH 1           if      -z   matchedCommitSubstring     then        if      line     currentBranch    then         startCountCommit  true        else         startCountCommit             if    -z   baseBranch     then           baseBranch         matchedCommitSubstring                amp  amp  echo   BASH REMATCH 1      echo   matchedCommitSubstring             fi        fi      fi       if      -z   startCountCommit   amp  amp   line          space   commit   space       then         commitCountOfCurrentBranch         fi   done  lt  lt  lt    gitLog   if    -z   baseBranch     then    baseBranch  origin master   else    baseBranch         baseBranch                 amp  amp  echo   BASH REMATCH 1      echo   baseBranch     fi   echo   INFO  Current commit count of the branch   currentBranch      commitCountOfCurrentBranch    if      commitCountOfCurrentBranch  -gt 1    then   echo   ERROR  Only a commit per branch is allowed  Try run  git rebase -i   baseBranch      exit 1 fi   For more analysis  please visit my blog

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One way to do it is list the log for your branch and count the lines   git log  lt branch name gt  --oneline   wc -l

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If you are using a UNIX system  you could do git log grep  quot Author quot  wc -l

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It might require a relatively recent version of Git  but this works well for me   git rev-list --count develop  HEAD   This gives me an exact count of commits in the current branch having its base on master   The command in Peter s answer  git rev-list --count HEAD  develop includes many more commits  678 vs 97 on my current project   My commit history is linear on this branch  so YMMV  but it gives me the exact answer I wanted  which is  How many commits have I added so far on this feature branch

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To see total no of commits you can do as Peter suggested above  git rev-list --count HEAD   And if you want to see number of commits made by each person try this line  git shortlog -s -n   will generate output like this  135  Tom Preston-Werner 15  Jack Danger Canty 10  Chris Van Pelt 7  Mark Reid 6  remi

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I like doing git shortlog -s -n --all  Gives you a  leaderboard  style list of names and number of commits

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How much commits was done to current branch since begin of history  not counting commits from merged branches  git rev-list HEAD --count --first-parent  From documentation git rev-list --help   --first-parent Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit  This option can give a better overview when viewing the evolution of a particular topic branch  because merges into a topic branch tend to be only about adjusting to updated upstream from time to time  and this option allows you to ignore the individual commits brought in to your history by such a merge  Cannot be combined with --bisect   Note  Shallow clone will shrink the history size  E g  if you clone with --depth 1  will return 1  number of commits done since some other commit  git rev-list HEAD abc0923f --count --first-parent  or the same  git rev-list abc0923f   --count --first-parent  or use any other git reference  git rev-list master tag-v20 --count --first-parent   Count commits done since 2018 year git rev-list HEAD --count --first-parent --since 2018-01-01  01-01-2018  01 01 2018  2018 01 01 also works   git rev-label I wrote a script to get version-revision from Git in format like   refname-c count-g short  dirty  which expands to master-c137-gabd32ef  Help is included to script itself

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How about git log --pretty oneline   wc -l  That should count all the commits from the perspective of your current branch

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