Feature Request - Track Lines of Code

[WesDowney]

It would be cool if Wakatime was also able to track lines of code added and deleted.

[alanhamlett]

We track the total number of lines in the currently focused file, so we could extrapolate the number of lines added/deleted. However, I think using Git for this info works better.

[alanhamlett]

We explored this in #946 and found counting the number of additions/deletions as integers at a given point in time (when sending heartbeats) could be displayed as a line area chart green/red lines. Like the Code Frequency chart:

Would having this data from WakaTime provide any benefit over how it's already provided by GitHub?

[alanhamlett]

Related discussion from GitHub asking for product feedback on their Code Frequency graph:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39757

[TENX-S]

This is an interesting feature. Any progress on this?

[alanhamlett]

We should have the editor plugins keep counters of added and deleted lines as two separate integers, sending along with other heartbeat params to wakatime-cli like --line-additions 2 --line-deletions 3. After sending the counts, the editor plugins should reset the two counts to zero.