History

The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.

Span
2005 – 2026
22 years
Peak Year
2007
5,381 commits
Releases
1,010
latest in 2026
2005BIRTHfirst commits

3,137 commits (3.8%) · +116,655 / −40,057 lines · 118 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,285 commits)

First commits: Junio C Hamano, Linus Torvalds, Kay Sievers, Johannes Schindelin, Paul Mackerras, Petr Baudis (+112 more)

Released: v0.99, v0.99.1, v0.99.2, v0.99.3, v0.99.4 (+45 more)

2006STEADY

4,551 commits (5.5%) · +123,108 / −51,723 lines · 150 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (2,110 commits)

First commits: Shawn O. Pearce, Jakub Narębski, Alexandre Julliard, Matthias Lederhofer, Jeff King, Dennis Stosberg (+89 more)

Released: v1.0.7, v1.0.8, v1.1.0, v1.0.9, v1.1.1 (+56 more)

2007PEAKbusiest year

5,381 commits (6.5%) · +157,425 / −58,477 lines · 265 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,499 commits)

First commits: Simon Hausmann, Frank Lichtenheld, Steffen Prohaska, Greg Hurrell, Mike Hommey, Kristian Høgsberg (+166 more)

Released: v1.4.4.4, v1.5.0-rc1, v1.5.0-rc2, v1.5.0-rc3, v1.5.0-rc4 (+67 more)

2008STEADY

3,992 commits (4.8%) · +117,180 / −42,761 lines · 299 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,260 commits)

First commits: Alexander Gavrilov, Thomas Rast, Stephan Beyer, SZEDER Gábor, Jonathan Nieder, Lee Marlow (+170 more)

Released: v1.5.3.8, v1.5.4-rc3, v1.5.4-rc4, gitgui-0.9.2, v1.5.4-rc5 (+52 more)

2009STEADY

3,689 commits (4.5%) · +86,256 / −23,012 lines · 292 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,291 commits)

First commits: Stephen Boyd, Tay Ray Chuan, Felipe Contreras, Björn Gustavsson, Kjetil Barvik, Erik Faye-Lund (+144 more)

Released: v1.6.1.1, v1.6.1.2, v1.6.1.3, v1.6.2-rc0, v1.6.2-rc1 (+45 more)

2010STEADY

3,716 commits (4.5%) · +99,004 / −30,115 lines · 254 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,302 commits)

First commits: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Ramkumar Ramachandra, David Barr, Gary V. Vaughan, Bo Yang, Jakub Suder (+110 more)

Released: v1.6.5.8, v1.6.6.1, v1.7.0-rc0, v1.7.0-rc1, v1.7.0-rc2 (+42 more)

2011STEADY

3,318 commits (4.0%) · +68,092 / −27,711 lines · 195 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,439 commits)

First commits: Dmitry Ivankov, Carlos Martín Nieto, Vitor Antunes, Valentin Haenel, Conrad Irwin, Vincent van Ravesteijn (+90 more)

Released: v1.7.3.5, v1.7.4-rc1, v1.7.4-rc2, v1.7.4-rc3, v1.7.4 (+45 more)

2012STEADY

3,622 commits (4.4%) · +158,179 / −50,699 lines · 210 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,572 commits)

First commits: Michael G. Schwern, Adam Spiers, Stefano Lattarini, Florian Achleitner, Trần Ngọc Quân, Thomas Ackermann (+103 more)

Released: v1.7.8.3, v1.7.9-rc0, v1.7.9-rc1, v1.7.7.6, v1.7.8.4 (+59 more)

2013STEADY

4,169 commits (5.0%) · +127,615 / −65,814 lines · 230 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,651 commits)

First commits: Stefan Beller, Célestin Matte, Kevin Bracey, Richard Hansen, Vicent Marti, Yann Droneaud (+114 more)

Released: v1.8.1.1, v1.8.1.2, v1.8.1.3, v1.8.2-rc0, v1.8.1.4 (+37 more)

2014STEADY

2,969 commits (3.6%) · +121,892 / −70,362 lines · 204 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,124 commits)

First commits: Ronnie Sahlberg, Tanay Abhra, Brian Gesiak, Dmitry S. Dolzhenko, Alexander Shopov, David Turner (+107 more)

Released: v1.8.5.3, v1.9-rc0, gitgui-0.19.0, v1.9-rc1, v1.9-rc2 (+35 more)

2015STEADY

3,198 commits (3.9%) · +146,659 / −88,483 lines · 183 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,351 commits)

First commits: Paul Tan, Karthik Nayak, Lars Schneider, YOKOTA Hiroshi, Patrick Steinhardt, Remi Lespinet (+83 more)

Released: v2.2.2, v2.3.0-rc0, v2.3.0-rc1, v2.3.0-rc2, v2.3.0 (+49 more)

2016STEADY

3,731 commits (4.5%) · +204,543 / −121,056 lines · 196 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,459 commits)

First commits: Vasco Almeida, Brandon Williams, Jonathan Tan, Pranit Bauva, Mehul Jain, Kazuki Yamaguchi (+92 more)

Released: v2.6.5, v2.7.0, v2.7.1, v2.7.2, v2.8.0-rc0 (+33 more)

2017STEADY

4,469 commits (5.4%) · +217,830 / −132,303 lines · 201 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,624 commits)

First commits: Martin Ågren, Kaartic Sivaraam, Phillip Wood, Jeff Smith, Ben Peart, Cornelius Weig (+91 more)

Released: v2.11.1, v2.12.0-rc0, v2.12.0-rc1, v2.12.0-rc2, v2.12.0 (+42 more)

2018STEADY

4,451 commits (5.4%) · +267,001 / −167,996 lines · 192 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,169 commits)

First commits: Pratik Karki, Alban Gruin, Matthew DeVore, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Henning Schild, Wink Saville (+87 more)

Released: v2.16.0-rc1, v2.16.0-rc2, v2.16.0, v2.16.1, v2.16.2 (+30 more)

2019STEADY

3,725 commits (4.5%) · +279,050 / −159,254 lines · 207 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,027 commits)

First commits: Pratyush Yadav, Heba Waly, Alexandr Miloslavskiy, Rohit Ashiwal, James Coglan, Emily Shaffer (+95 more)

Released: v2.21.0-rc0, v2.21.0-rc1, v2.21.0-rc2, v2.21.0, v2.22.0-rc0 (+25 more)

2020STEADY

3,549 commits (4.3%) · +368,167 / −222,530 lines · 203 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,062 commits)

First commits: Nipunn Koorapati, Shourya Shukla, Emir Sarı, Aaron Lipman, Sibi Siddharthan, Sean Barag (+91 more)

Released: v2.25.0-rc1, v2.25.0-rc2, v2.25.0, v2.25.1, v2.26.0-rc0 (+42 more)

2021STEADY

3,919 commits (4.7%) · +334,889 / −238,273 lines · 181 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,111 commits)

First commits: Andrzej Hunt, Luke Shumaker, Fabian Stelzer, Bagas Sanjaya, ZheNing Hu, Atharva Raykar (+86 more)

Released: v2.17.6, v2.30.1, v2.18.5, v2.19.6, v2.20.5 (+30 more)

2022STEADY

3,519 commits (4.3%) · +367,108 / −376,383 lines · 164 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,070 commits)

First commits: Shaoxuan Yuan, Abhradeep Chakraborty, Robert Coup, Emir SARI, Siddharth Asthana, Eric DeCosta (+66 more)

Released: v2.35.0-rc0, v2.35.0-rc1, v2.35.0-rc2, v2.35.0, v2.35.1 (+59 more)

2023STEADY

2,835 commits (3.4%) · +96,642 / −44,766 lines · 151 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (921 commits)

First commits: Jacob Abel, Andy Koppe, Shuqi Liang, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Arkadii Yakovets, Michael Strawbridge (+57 more)

Released: v2.30.8, v2.31.7, v2.32.6, v2.33.7, v2.34.7 (+33 more)

2024STEADY

3,967 commits (4.8%) · +117,920 / −52,535 lines · 168 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,287 commits)

First commits: Andrew Kreimer, shejialuo, Ghanshyam Thakkar, Justin Tobler, Bence Ferdinandy, Brian Lyles (+83 more)

Released: v2.43.1, v2.44.0-rc0, v2.43.2, v2.44.0-rc1, v2.44.0-rc2 (+39 more)

2025STEADY

3,491 commits (4.2%) · +146,069 / −86,289 lines · 176 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (1,111 commits)

First commits: Aditya Garg, Julia Evans, Lidong Yan, Ezekiel Newren, Lucas Seiki Oshiro, Ayush Chandekar (+78 more)

Released: v2.48.0-rc2, v2.48.0, v2.48.1, v2.49.0-rc0, v2.49.0-rc1 (+24 more)

2026STEADY

3,270 commits (4.0%) · +183,403 / −59,214 lines · 221 authors

Led by Junio C Hamano (985 commits)

First commits: Kristofer Karlsson, Pablo Sabater, Tian Yuchen, Michael Montalbo, Mirko Faina, Siddharth Shrimali (+132 more)

Released: v2.53.0-rc0, v2.53.0-rc1, v2.53.0-rc2, v2.53.0, v2.54.0-rc0 (+11 more)