What's the engine for counting the lines of code of projects?

[huskier]

I'm very curious which tool or engine is used to count lines of code of projects?

[lsk569937453]

I currently use git2-rs to retrieve all commits from the current branch. For each commit, I calculate the line count by subtracting the number of deleted lines from the number of added lines (line count = added - deleted). To get the total line count, I sum these values across all commits.

[huskier]

Why do not employ the tokei/sloccount/sloc etc. line counting engines? I think they are more professional at counting lines; meanwhile, they are Language-sensitive。

[lsk569937453]

There are two places where the line count is needed:

• File Tab: This should count the files and lines of code for the current commit in the repository. Using tokei here would be ideal since it provides additional useful metrics.

• Lines Tab: This will generate a curve showing the line count for every commit over time. I’d prefer to keep this simple and not introduce any additional metrics.

[huskier]

• Lines Tab: This will generate a curve showing the line count for every commit over time. I’d prefer to keep this simple and not introduce any additional metrics.

Thanks. I think that's OK for now.