I thought it might be interesting to create a graph of our lines-of-code estimates over the past 20 years using SLOCCount[1], Tokei[2], and cloc[3]. Each program produces similar numbers until 2013, when SLOCCount's estimate drops considerably. Running the following commands on a VM here produces the following output:
$ git rev-list -1 --before="2012-07-15 00:00:00" master
5ca89cfed3aa9f0498de2783673abc4c69b4271b
$ git checkout 5ca89cfed3aa9f0498de2783673abc4c69b4271b
$ sloccount . | grep "Total Physical"
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 2,296,099
$ tokei | grep -E "^ Language|^ Total"
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
Total 3113 3165826 2401593 311398 452835
$ cloc --quiet . | grep -E "^Language|^SUM"
Language files blank comment code
SUM: 3247 463705 321676 2438038
$ git rev-list -1 --before="2013-07-15 00:00:00" master
6d7a3a8ceef0fbcf3fc0ced1b92834c505dc135a
$ git checkout 6d7a3a8ceef0fbcf3fc0ced1b92834c505dc135a
$ sloccount . | grep "Total Physical"
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 1,880,237
$ tokei | grep -E "^ Language|^ Total"
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
Total 3487 3439642 2647784 339535 452323
$ cloc --quiet . | grep -E "^Language|^SUM"
Language files blank comment code
SUM: 3619 464134 349410 2693479
Does anyone know what we did between July 2012 and 2013 that would affect SLOCCount?
[1] https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
[2] https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei
[3] https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
Tokei and cloc
