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A command to calculate lines of code in all tracked files in a Git repo
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Count lines in Git repo
// Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822471/count-number-of-lines-in-a-git-repository
$ git ls-files | xargs wc -l
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zadafiyaharsh2-ctrl commented Dec 25, 2025 •
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nstall cloc
choco install cloc
then
cd repo-name
then
cloc .

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andyg2 commented Dec 27, 2025

Install cloc choco install cloc then cd repo-name then cloc .

Repo https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc GPL-2.0 / 22k stars

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