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by g5095 1568 days ago
This idea of 'word count' that an Author can use to hold themselves accountable is intriguing. I wonder if a 'lines changed per day' metric (purely as a personal motivator) would be useful for side-projects that we all procrastinate on.

There's got to be some way using git log to get a rough approximation of 'lines changed per day' that you could represent somewhere like a histogram.

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A harder (and better) goal is how many lines you remove:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

`git log --stat` maybe? At least if start there...