Changes with stat

Learn each commit's changes with git log --stat.

Inspect commit changes

git log --stat lists commit history while also showing which files changed in each commit. The number of inserted and deleted lines appears next to the file names. This lets you see not only the commit message but also the size of each change.

git log --stat

This option is used to quickly inspect file changes in the history.

Reading stat output

The --stat output displays file names and change counts together. insertions refers to added lines, while deletions refers to removed lines.

 README.md | 5 +++--
 app.php   | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Plus signs represent inserted lines, while minus signs represent deleted lines.

Exercise Inspect change statistics

Write git log --stat to display commit history with file changes and inserted/deleted line counts.

Show example solution

# Commit değişiklik istatistiklerini göster
git log --stat

Test yourself

What do the inserted and deleted line counts in git log --stat output represent?
- Lines added and removed in the commit
- The time taken to create the commit
- The total number of files in the repository
- The number of people who created the commit
Show answer

Lines added and removed in the commit — <code>--stat</code> shows the numbers of lines inserted and deleted in a commit.
Display change statistics
```
git log ____
```
Show answer
```
git log --stat
```
Change statistics

--stat

Summarizes file changes
insertions

Number of inserted lines
deletions

Number of deleted lines
2 files changed

Number of changed files

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