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Git checkout old revisions by date

I wanted to do some code stats for a repository. This line checks out old revisions by date and shows code stats:

git checkout `git rev-list -n 1 --before="2012-03-01" master`

Then, I ran cloc to count lines of code:

cloc .

Its really easy to register the point in time as a git branch so that you can get back and count lines of code later:

git co -b 2012-03

You can always verify latest revision like so:

Git log -1

The combination of git and cloc makes it really simple to keep history of codebase changes.

This entry was posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Friday, November 9th, 2012 at 23:24 (GMT-1) and is filed under Code. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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