Count lines added by a developer

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Hi guys,

I would like to write some webhooks to gather data about our users’ actions and right now I am interested in counting the number of lines added and deleted by each developer.

In each push event the webhook receives the commits pushed by the developer.

Is there a way to count the number of lines added or deleted by each commit?

Thanks a lot.

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This sounds cool! Do you mind sharing some more details of the webhook? I did a little bit of looking around and I believe this could be accomplished with a variation of git diff while using the –stat flag.

There is a pretty good post on SO that had similar parameters to what you’re trying to do: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2528111/how-can-i-calculate-the-number-of-lines-changed-between-two-commits-in-git

Looks like you’ll be able to get a good amount of information depending on the options you use with either git diff or git log.

Sounds like a cool webhook - would love to hear more!

J

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@jamesmundia

Thanks for your reply, I can use this api endpoint GET /projects/:id/repository/commits/:sha found here to get the information I want.

I am still planning my project, I will share info with you once I have a good version to start with.

I would like to enable the users of Gitlab CE to get information about the activities of their users with help from webhooks.

Thanks again.

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Thank you for the API link! Are the stats contained in the example responses for a single commit (https://gitlab.com/help/api/commits.md#get-a-single-commit) and cherry picked commit (https://gitlab.com/help/api/commits.md#cherry-pick-a-commit) suitable for you?

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Did you ever get this working?