git number of commits per author

when working with git, it's often useful to know the number of commits per author

here’s a quick git command to show the number of commits per author

git shortlog --summary --numbered --all --no-merges

and here’s the breakdown of what’s going on

• --summary: shows a summary of commits by author.
• --numbered: numbers the authors in the output like a leaderboard.
• --all: includes commits from all branches
• --no-merges: skips those boring merge commits

run the command, and git will spit out something like this

100  John Doe
50   Jane Smith
25   Alice Johnson
10   Bob Brown

it’s like your team’s commit leaderboard, right in your terminal

now you can see who’s been slacking and who’s been merging everyone else’s code