gitchart.py is a Python script to build charts from a Git repository.

It can build following charts, as SVG or PNG:

• authors (pie chart)
• commits by hour of day, day, day of week, month of year, year, year/month (bar charts)
• commits by hour of week (dot chart)
• files by type (pie chart)

The script requires Python >= 2.7 and Pygal, which can be installed with this command:

# pip install pygal

Note: cairosvg is required to generate PNG files.

See output of command:

$ python gitchart.py -h

Generate pie chart with authors:

$ python gitchart.py -t "Git authors on project X" -r /path/to/gitrepo/ authors authors.svg

Generate bar chart with commits by year:

$ python gitchart.py -r /path/to/gitrepo/ commits_year commits_year.svg

Generate bar chart with commits by version (tag):

$ cd /path/to/gitrepo/
$ git tag | python /path/to/gitchart.py commits_version /tmp/commits_version.svg

gitchart.py is used to build statistics for WeeChat: http://weechat.org/dev/stats/