Extracting the top contributor
Git has a few built-in stats you can get instantaneously. The git log command has different options, such as --numstat, that will show the number of files added and lines deleted for each file since each commit. However, for finding the top committer in the repository, we can just use the git shortlog command.
Getting ready
As with all the examples throughout the book, we are using the jgit repository; you can either clone it or go to one of the clones you might already have.
Clone the jgit repository as follows:
$ git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit chapter6 $ cd chapter6
How to do it...
The
shortlog Git command is very simple and does not leave a lot of options or flags to use with it. It can show the log ...
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