# Best way to get number of insertions and deletions from a diff? 2 messages from 2010-10-13 to 2010-10-13. Participants: Pat Notz, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25439 ## Pat Notz, 2010-10-13 19:21 Subject: Best way to get number of insertions and deletions from a diff? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinJuuxOZ2DvCSc2Nb0DAjwmJEyJXeGLHsLkyM1B%40mail.gmail.com ``` I'd like to probe various commits to see how many lines were added or removed. For example, $ git diff --shortstat HEAD HEAD^1 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) That's great but I'd like to do this from a script and parse out those numbers. Is there a more plumbing-level way to do this that would be more robust? Or, should I just parse this output? Thanks ~ Pat ``` ## Jeff King, 2010-10-13 19:37 Subject: Re: Best way to get number of insertions and deletions from a diff? Message-ID: <20101013193750.GC13155@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20101013193750.GC13155%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:21:27PM -0600, Pat Notz wrote: > I'd like to probe various commits to see how many lines were added or > removed. For example, > > $ git diff --shortstat HEAD HEAD^1 > 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > That's great but I'd like to do this from a script and parse out those > numbers. Is there a more plumbing-level way to do this that would be > more robust? Or, should I just parse this output? The official plumbing way is --numstat, but you will have to sum the totals for file yourself. You should also use "git diff-tree" over "git diff". If you have a lot of commits, the simplest thing is something like: git diff-tree --stdin --numstat