commits_per_hour

#!/usr/bin/env bash
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# Prints the number of commits per hour.
#
# <hour> <num_commits>

# * `git log`
#   - Show commit logs.
# * `grep '^Date'`
#   - Extract the line which begins with `Date` from each log.
# * `awk '{}'`
#   - From each date line, extract the hour.
# * `sort -n`
#   - Sort in numerical order.
# * `uniq -c`
#   - Remove repeated lines and count the repeats to show hourly totals.
# * `awk '{}'`
#   - Format the output.
git log | grep '^Date' | awk '
{
	split($5, time, ":")
	print time[1]
}
' | sort -n | uniq -c | awk '{print $2 OFS $1}'