diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index e198b48e86e..25c023479e6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 v 7.14.0 (unreleased)
   - Fix URL used for refreshing notes if relative_url is present (Bartłomiej Święcki)
   - Fix Error 500 when browsing projects with no HEAD (Stan Hu)
+  - Add rake task 'gitlab:update_commit_count' (Daniel Gerhardt)
   - Fix full screen mode for snippet comments (Daniel Gerhardt)
   - Fix 404 error in files view after deleting the last file in a repository (Stan Hu)
   - Fix the "Reload with full diff" URL button (Stan Hu)
diff --git a/lib/tasks/gitlab/update_commit_count.rake b/lib/tasks/gitlab/update_commit_count.rake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9b636f12d9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/tasks/gitlab/update_commit_count.rake
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+namespace :gitlab do
+  desc "GitLab | Update commit count for projects"
+  task update_commit_count: :environment do
+    projects = Project.where(commit_count: 0)
+    puts "#{projects.size} projects need to be updated. This might take a while."
+    ask_to_continue unless ENV['force'] == 'yes'
+
+    projects.find_each(batch_size: 100) do |project|
+      print "#{project.name_with_namespace.yellow} ... "
+
+      unless project.repo_exists?
+        puts "skipping, because the repo is empty".magenta
+        next
+      end
+
+      project.update_commit_count
+      puts project.commit_count.to_s.green
+    end
+  end
+end