maintenance-burden

A simple tool to calculate the maintenance burden of each file in a git repository

We define the maintenance burden of a file to be the difference between the following two quantities:

• the total number of lines added to the file across all commits in the repository
• the file's current number of lines

So, for example, if a file has only ever had lines added (never deleted), it will have a maintenance burden of 0.

The following is the output currently produced by running maintenance-burden on its own repository:

0 .gitignore 0 Cargo.toml 0 src/main.rs 2 tests/dogfood.rs 4 README.md 12 Cargo.lock