Git

Today I learned how to count git commits in a repository by author name:

git shortlog -s -n --all --no-merges

Explanation:

• git shortlog: summarize git log output
• -s: only count commits
• -n: sort by commit number instead of author name
• --all: count commits in all branches
• --no-merges: exclude merge commits

If you want to include author emails add -e

Sources:

• https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog
• https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log

Today I had the case that I wanted to rename a subfolder in a git-project at work. “Easy” I thought. Just rename the file in finder, stage all un-staged changes in SourceTree, commit and push.

But… the only thing that happened was that SourceTree complained about not being able to find files in the old foldername. So I googled a bit and found a solution.

How to really do it

Just use git mv on the shell! The syntax is git mv {source} {dest}