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milindbangar
milindbangar

Reputation: 443

Export GIT LOG into an Excel file

I have looked into the forum, but with no luck.

Requirement :

Run GIT LOG (format) command and write the results into an Excel File .

I have seen examples wherein with GIT Log command, data can be written into a CSV, but formatting is double the effort.

Any utility or approach would be helpful.

Thanks Milind

Upvotes: 43

Views: 49412

Answers (5)

danzuep
danzuep

Reputation: 21

If anyone came here looking for PowerShell, here's how the first part of avs099's answer translates:

echo "Commit Hash,Authored Date,Author Name,Author Email,Comment Subject,Files Changed,Lines Added,Lines Deleted" > gitlogs.csv
$gitlogs = git log --since='last year' --pretty=format:'%x02%x22%h%x22%x2C%x22%ad%x22%x2C%x22%an%x22%x2C%x22%ae%x22%x2C%x22%s%x22%x2C' --date=iso-strict --shortstat
$gitlogs -Split [Environment]::NewLine -Join '' -Replace '\x02',[Environment]::NewLine >> gitlogs.csv

Key

  • > == create/overwrite
  • >> == append to file
  • %x02 == Start of Text
  • %x22 == Quote mark
  • %x2C == Comma

The headings describe %h, %s etc. See the git help page for more info.

--since='last year' could also be --since='YYYY-MM-DD'

Upvotes: 0

Jojo Joseph Kunathucherry
Jojo Joseph Kunathucherry

Reputation: 402

Simple Solution

git log --pretty=format:%h,%ad,%an,%ae,%s > gitlogs.csv

Upvotes: 5

Yaneeve
Yaneeve

Reputation: 4779

I found the answers here quite good. I hacked a script based mostly on waht @avs099 proposed, here it is for ease of reference:

#!/bin/bash

REPO=$1

DIR=`realpath -L ./$REPO`

echo going to compute stats for $DIR

cd $DIR


git checkout main
git pull
git log --since='last year' --date=short --pretty="%x40%h%x2C%an%x2C%ad%x2C%x22%s%x22%x2C" --shortstat | tr "\n" " " | tr "@" "\n" > res.csv


sed -i 's/ files changed//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ file changed//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ insertions(+)//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ insertion(+)//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ deletions(-)//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ deletion(-)//g' res.csv

mv res.csv git-log.csv

awk -i inplace 'BEGINFILE{print "commit,user,date,comment,files changed,insertions,deletions"}{print}' git-log.csv

sed -i '/^$/d' git-log.csv

cd -

Upvotes: 1

avs099
avs099

Reputation: 11227

my 2 cents in case anyone is looking:

echo "commit id,author,date,comment,changed files,lines added,lines deleted" > res.csv 
git log --since='last year'  --date=local --all --pretty="%x40%h%x2C%an%x2C%ad%x2C%x22%s%x22%x2C" --shortstat | tr "\n" " " | tr "@" "\n" >> res.csv
sed -i 's/ files changed//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ file changed//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ insertions(+)//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ insertion(+)//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ deletions(-)//g' res.csv
sed -i 's/ deletion(-)//g' res.csv

and either save it into git-logs-into-csv.sh file or just copy/paste into console.

I think it's relatively self-explaining but just in case:

  • --all takes logs from all branches
  • --since limits the number of commits we want to look at
  • --shortstat - to get some idea what was done in the commit

Upvotes: 38

joker
joker

Reputation: 3752

Git gives your the control on how to format the log output using pretty option. Check this out:

git log --pretty=format:%h,%an,%ae,%s

This prints the log in the format of (hash [abbreviated], author name, author email, subject).

To see the full list of format options:

git help log

And scroll down until you see the list of format options.

To redirect the output, use > redirection operator as follows:

git log --pretty=format:%h,%an,%ae,%s > /path/to/file.csv

Upvotes: 71

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