Add script to calculate deletions per year

kgryte · kgryte · commit 964388bde87b · 2017-12-27T18:26:57.000-08:00
diff --git a/tools/git/scripts/deletions_per_year b/tools/git/scripts/deletions_per_year
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Prints the number of deletions per year.
+#
+# <year> <deletions>
+
+# Determine root directory:
+root="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+
+# Define the path to a utility to generate commit short stats:
+shortstats="${root}/tools/git/scripts/shortstats"
+
+# * `shortstats`
+#   - Get summary statistics for each commit.
+# * `awk '{}'`
+#   - Tabulate the yearly totals.
+# * `sort -k1n`
+#   - Sort the year numerically.
+"${shortstats}" | awk '
+{
+	lines[$5] += $10
+}
+END {
+	for (yr in lines) {
+		print yr OFS lines[yr]
+	}
+}' | sort -k1n
