Initial historical line counter

tools/line_count/collect-history.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import subprocess
+import datetime
+
+def daterange(start, end):
+  for n in range(int((end - start).days)):
+    yield start + datetime.timedelta(n)
+
+start_date = datetime.date(2014, 11, 21)
+end_date = datetime.date(2017, 3, 26)
+
+for dt in daterange(start_date, end_date):
+  dmy = dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
+  sha1 = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-list', '-n', '1',
+                                  '--before=%s' % dmy,
+                                  'master']).strip()
+  subprocess.check_call(['git', 'checkout', sha1])
+  subprocess.check_call(['git', 'submodule', 'update'])
+  subprocess.check_call(['git', 'clean', '-f', '-x', '-d'])
+  subprocess.check_call(['cloc', '--vcs=git', '--by-file', '--yaml', '--out=../count/%s.yaml' % dmy, '.'])
+