mergestat-lite is a command-line tool for running SQL queries on git repositories and related data sources.
It's meant for ad-hoc querying of source-code on disk through a common interface (SQL), as an alternative to patching together various shell commands.
It can execute queries that look like:
-- how many commits have been authored by [email protected]?
SELECT count(*) FROM commits WHERE author_email = '[email protected]'It installs a binary named mergestat.
More in-depth examples and documentation can be found on our dedicated documentation site.
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See the full instructions in our documentation.
brew tap mergestat/mergestat
brew install mergestatdocker run -v "${PWD}:/repo" mergestat/mergestat "select count(*) from commits"SQL queries can be executed in the CLI on local or remote git repositories. Remote repos are cloned to a temporary directory at runtime.
The --format flag can be used to output json, ndjson, csv and more (see mergestat -h).
This can be useful for piping/using with other tools.
Higher level commands such as mergestat summarize commits generate reports without requiring a SQL input.
Learn more here about the available flags such as --start to change the date range and --json to output as JSON.


