Git
What stands out
Next to the 106 other projects of GitStats Gallery: where Git is in the top or bottom 15%.
- 93%Days with a commit
Git has had a commit by a person on 93% of the days since its first one: 7,355 days in 22 years.
11th highest of 97; the median project: 80% of days.
- Commits
- 82,668
- 11.2 per active day · 10.5 per day
- Authors
- 2,378
- 34.8 commits per author
- Lines of Code
- 1,694,707
- +3,904,687 added · −2,209,813 removed
- Files
- 4,862
- 90 extensions
- Active Days
- 7,355
- of 7,878 days · 93.4%
- Longest Streak
- 529 days
- consecutive active days
Commits per year
Top contributors
| Author | Commits | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junio C Hamano | 28,710 | 34.7% | |
| Jeff King | 4,756 | 5.8% | |
| Johannes Schindelin | 2,557 | 3.1% | |
| Patrick Steinhardt | 2,481 | 3.0% | |
| Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason | 1,945 | 2.4% |
Latest releases
| Tag | Date | Commits | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| v2.56.0 | 2026-09-28 | 21 | Jiang Xin, Junio C Hamano +10 |
| v2.56.0-rc2 | 2026-09-22 | 10 | Junio C Hamano, Todd Zullinger +2 |
| v2.56.0-rc1 | 2026-09-16 | 116 | Junio C Hamano, Patrick Steinhardt +16 |
| v2.56.0-rc0 | 2026-09-10 | 832 | Junio C Hamano, Patrick Steinhardt +62 |
| v2.55.0 | 2026-06-29 | 34 | Jiang Xin, Junio C Hamano +14 |
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The smallest workflow
Publishes the report to GitHub Pages on every push to main: turn on Pages for the gh-pages branch.
# .github/workflows/gitstats.yml
name: GitStats Report
on:
push:
branches: [main]
permissions:
contents: write
jobs:
gitstats:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: shenxianpeng/gitstats-action@v1
with:
deploy-to-pages: true