RFE: New metric "Number of git commits"

[doomguy]

Describe the enhancement
Another interesting metric would be the number of git commits done on a file. Files which get touched a lot (hotspots) can indicate complicated / high maintenance code. On the contrary, files which only got touched once or twice and are reasonable complex could indicate a lack of auditing or refinement.

Cf. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/code-bugs-legacy-pitfalls/

Example

% git log --name-only --pretty=format: | grep -v ^$ | sort | uniq -c | sort | tail
  65 internal/auth/auth.go
  66 internal/domain/domain.go
  70 CHANGELOG
  70 internal/source/domains.go
  72 go.sum
  78 VERSION
  83 go.mod
 113 main.go
 122 acceptance_test.go
 154 app.go

Thanks for considering.

Cheers!
/Doomguy

[boyter]

I have thought about this, and I think it best served by another tool, which may include scc as a library or some such. Ripsrc did this to an extent https://github.com/pinpt/ripsrc

I don't know if I am willing to implement this myself, although its something I think I might need in the future with some ideas I have so you never know.