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List all developers on a project in Git

Is it possible to list all users that contributed to a project (users that have done commits) in Git?

Any additional statistics?

9 Answers
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To show all users and the number of commits:

git shortlog --summary --numbered


Or simply:

git shortlog -sn


git shortlog -sn HEAD

-e

--all

If you want to be more specific in the list (find a list of unique committer and author), you could use git log:

git log

git log --pretty="%an %ae%n%cn %ce" | sort | uniq


%an

%ae

%n

%cn

%ce

Other placeholders are described in the pretty print documentation of git log.

git log

%n

sort

You can try this:

git log | grep Author: | sort | uniq


(users that have done commits)

Note: by default git shortlog groups commits by authors.

git shortlog

If you need to group them by committers, you will need Git 2.12 (Q1 2017)

git shortlog -snc


See commit 03f4082 (16 Dec 2016) by Jeff King (peff).
See commit fbfda15 (11 Oct 2016) by Linus Torvalds (torvalds).
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit ad1b4e2, 27 Dec 2016)}

peff

torvalds

gitster

Linus Torvalds himself introduces this feature:

shortlog

In some situations you may want to group the commits not by author,
but by committer instead.

For example, when I just wanted to look up what I'm still missing from linux-next in the current merge window, I don't care so much about who
wrote a patch, as what git tree it came from, which generally boils
down to "who committed it".

linux-next

git tree

So make git shortlog take a "-c" or "--committer" option to switch grouping to that.

-c

--committer

I haven't got around to testing it myself yet, but this looks really nice for project statistics for a Git repository: https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras

Check out the bin catalog to see the the different scripts.

bin

For example, the git-count script (commit count per committer):

git-count

git shortlog -n $@ | grep "):" | sed 's|:||'


Great answers by @pedro-nascimento, by @mic_e and others already solve the problem.

In addition, you can add the following line to your .gitconfig

.gitconfig

contributors = shortlog -e --summary --numbered


or in shell type

git config --global alias.contributors 'shortlog -e --summary --numbered'


You can try an amazing pack called git-extras. Specifically, the commands git-summary, git-count and maybe some other.

Another option can be:

git log --format='%aN' | sort -u


Most of the repositories contain multiple identities ([email, name] pairs) per author. If I can suggest a non-CLI solution, try Gitential which also deduplicates the author identities.

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