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Count Lines of Code (cloc)

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Count Lines of Code (cloc)

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Count Lines of Code (cloc)

Count Lines of Code with https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Count Lines of Code (cloc)

              
  uses: djdefi/cloc-action@7
Learn more about this action in djdefi/cloc-action

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cloc-action

GitHub Action to Count Lines of Code with https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc

Example workflow:

name: Count Lines of Code

# Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request 
# events but only for the main branch
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  cloc:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
    # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

    # Runs djdefi/cloc-action
    - name: Count Lines of Code (cloc)
      uses: djdefi/cloc-action@6

Additional Options

The cloc-action allows you to provide additional options to customize your usage. These can be passed during the step execution in your workflow file. The options are passed to the underlying cloc tool.

Here is an example of how to provide additional options:

- name: Count Lines of Code with additional options
  uses: djdefi/cloc-action@main
  with:
    options: --exclude-lang=YAML --md --report-file=cloc.md

In the example above:

--exclude-lang=YAML is used to exclude YAML files from the count. --md is used to generate the output in markdown format. --report-file=cloc.md is used to write the output to the cloc.md file.

These are just a few examples, other options are available based on your needs, some of which you can find in the cloc documentation.

Note: Please provide the options without any quotes. Any options requiring quotes should be escaped inside a string. For example, options: "--exclude-dir=path\ to\ folder"

This level of customization lets you control how cloc works based on the specific needs of your project.