Count Commits within Time Range in Git

git rev-list lists commit objects in reverse chronological order, and as such is an incredibly powerful tool for inspecting your repository.

For example, if you wanted to count all your commits, you can with git rev-list --count HEAD.

You can also drill down to a specific time range with the --before and --after options. To get the count of all commits during 2024, you can run:

git rev-list --count --after="2024-01-01" --before="2025-01-01" HEAD

There are tons of other options you can use to filter this down too, by author, committer, etc.

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