I often find that when management asks for something they typically want the output on a webpage, in a graph, or slide presentation. If you find that's the case you could take a look at the statsvn (http://www.statsvn.org/) project.
In the past I've used this data not to track productivity but to get a feel of %churn in a given codebase. If I'm a week from final compile and half the code is being rewritten, I get nervous :-)
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:09 AM
To: Parrish, Ken
Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Source code statistics ...
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:01, Parrish, Ken<KParrish_at_gomez.com> wrote:
> I have been asked by my management to calculate the total number of lines
> of code which were added or modified between two revisions in our source
> code.
>
>
>
> Is there a way, using Subversion commands, to calculate such statistics?
Not purely with Subversion, you 'll need to script it. There are
several scripts/packages that do this. On a simplistic level, you can
either use the output of svn diff or export both revisions and run wc
-l on each, then compare. But that doesn't account for binary files,
entirely new files, files deleted, etc. And even a minor refactoring
can skew those numbers heavily.
But it's a losing proposition. Tracking development by statistics like
this is a sign that management doesn't understand that building
software is not like building a skyscraper. I had a PM (Princeton or
Harvard MBA, no less) once who wanted me to estimate how many LOC my
application would ultimately be, and then gauged my progress by asking
for a LOC count weekly.
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