Finding the most often changed files with git effort from git-extras

git-extras is a collection of Git utilities. git effort shows the list of files or folders sorted by the number of changes in these files or folders.

1. Install git-extras:

brew install git-extras

Note If you’re not on macOS, check the installation instructions.

2. Run the command in your repository or in its subfolder:

cd src/components
git effort --above 1 *

• --above 1 option limits the output only to entries with more than one change, otherwise it’s too large;
• * is a glob pattern to group changes by folder instead of showing each files separately.

After running the command we’ll see two tables — the first is sorted alphabetically, and the second is sorted by the number of changes:

path                                   commits    active days

  src/ContainerHeader.................... 2           2
  src/ContainerSection................... 2           2
  src/DesktopHeader...................... 2           2
  ...

path                                   commits    active days

  src/Icons2............................. 10          8
  src/Time............................... 5           4
  src/PhoneNumberInput................... 4           4
  ...