GitHub action to generate Hits-of-Code badge with hoc calculated metric.
hoc - is a command line tool to calculate Hits-of-Code metric in a source code repository.
You can read more about Hits-of-Code metric in this blog post: Hits-of-Code Instead of SLoC.
To install action copy the workflow code into a .github/workflows/main.yml file in your repository
on: [push]
jobs:
lines_counter_job:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: A job to count hits of code
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- id: badge-generator
uses: ./ # Write the action name instead.
with:
since: 2000-01-01 # Default value: '2000-01-01'.
before: 2024-03-03' # Default value: now day.
dir: . # Default value: include all files in the current directory.
# For exclude option we can use multiline strings if we want to pass multiple values.
# In this case it's an important detail that we used '|' or '|-' in the YAML.
# There is no default value for exclude option.
exclude: |
dir1/**
dir2/**/*
dir3/file.txt
output_dir: ./output # Default value: './output'.
filename: hoc-badge.svg # Default value: 'hoc-badge.svg'.The badge will be generated into the file ./output/hoc-badge.svg by default.
Use whatever tool you prefer to upload it somewhere.