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import git 
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

GIT_REPO_PATH = r'../../spring-petclinic/'
repo = git.Repo(GIT_REPO_PATH)
git_bin = repo.git
git_log = git_bin.execute('git log --pretty=format:"%h\t%at\t%aN\t%s"')
commits = pd.read_csv(StringIO(git_log), 
    sep="\t",
    header=None,              
    names=['sha', 'timestamp', 'author', 'message']
    )
commits['word_count'] = commits['message'].str.count(" ")+1
commits.head()


    

    
Out[1]:







  

    

      

      
sha
      
timestamp
      
author
      
message
      
word_count
    
  
  

    

      
0
      
101c9dc
      
1498817227
      
Dave Syer
      
Update Spring Boot and Thymeleaf versions
      
6
    
    

      
1
      
ffa967c
      
1492026060
      
Antoine Rey
      
spring-petclinic-angular1 repo renamed to spri...
      
5
    
    

      
2
      
fd1c742
      
1488784768
      
Antoine Rey
      
Do not fail maven build when git directing is ...
      
10
    
    

      
3
      
f792522
      
1487331121
      
Stephane Nicoll
      
Merge pull request #229 from henri-tremblay:eh...
      
6
    
    

      
4
      
75912a0
      
1487331057
      
Stephane Nicoll
      
Polish contribution
      
2
    
  

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%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

commits['word_count'].hist()
plt.suptitle("Word count distribution of commit messages")


    

    
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<matplotlib.text.Text at 0x20e2572d518>