Release-4.0.0

Removed include and exclude files options.

Release-3.0.1

Fixed name

Release-3.0.0

Added new features:

• multiple exclude directories option
• multiple include directories option
• color option
• number round mode option
• decimal separator in number
  Added test jobs.

Release-2.0.0

GitHub action to generate Liines-of-Code badge with lines of code count

To install action copy the workflow code into a .github/workflows/main.yml file in your repository

on: [push]

jobs:
  lines_counter_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: A job to count lines of code and generate badge
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - id: counting
        uses: ./                   # write the action name instead
        with:
          include-files: '.*\**'  # default value - include all files
          exclude-files: ''        # default value - exclude no files

See README.md for more regex examples.

Changes:
The badge will be generated into ./output/total-lines.svg file. Use whatever tool you prefer to upload it somewhere.

First version

In this version, you use posix-egrep to pass a regular expression to the action to exclude or include file lines counts.
In next releases it will be simplified.
To install action copy the workflow code into a .github/workflows/main.yml file in your repository

on: [push]

jobs:
  lines_counter_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: A job to count lines of code and generate badge
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - id: counting
        uses: ./                   # write the action name instead
        with:
          include-files: '.*\.sh'  # default value - include all files
          exclude-files: ''        # default value - exclude no files

See README.md for more regex examples.
The badge will be generated in image-data branche of your repository. For this you need to configure Setting the permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN for your repository.