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.
1 commits (0.0%) · +7 / −0 lines · 1 author
Led by Brian Kernighan (1 commit)
First commits: Brian Kernighan
No commits this year.
1 commits (0.0%) · +3 / −7 lines · 1 author
Led by Brian Kernighan (1 commit)
No commits from 1975 to 1987.
2 commits (0.0%) · +8 / −3 lines · 1 author
Led by Brian Kernighan (2 commits)
No commits from 1989 to 2007.
1,396 commits (2.0%) · +216,172 / −61,733 lines · 6 authors
Led by Rob Pike (400 commits)
First commits: Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer, Russ Cox, Ken Thompson, Ian Lance Taylor, Cary Hull
3,116 commits (4.6%) · +515,563 / −279,109 lines · 70 authors
Led by Russ Cox (1,147 commits)
First commits: Kai Backman, Austin Clements, David Symonds, Adam Langley, Devon H. O'Dell, Nigel Tao (+59 more)
Released: weekly.2009-11-06, weekly.2009-11-10, weekly.2009-11-10.1, weekly.2009-11-12, weekly.2009-11-17 (+3 more)
2,501 commits (3.7%) · +246,750 / −124,337 lines · 98 authors
Led by Russ Cox (771 commits)
First commits: Andrew Gerrand, Alex Brainman, Scott Lawrence, Petar Maymounkov, Luuk van Dijk, Peter Mundy (+65 more)
Released: weekly.2010-01-05, weekly.2010-01-13, weekly.2010-01-27, weekly.2010-02-04, weekly.2010-02-17 (+33 more)
3,994 commits (5.9%) · +421,203 / −189,863 lines · 148 authors
Led by Russ Cox (838 commits)
First commits: Dave Cheney, Dmitry Vyukov, Andy Balholm, Lucio De Re, Robert Hencke, Mike Samuel (+86 more)
Released: weekly.2011-01-06, weekly.2011-01-12, weekly.2011-01-19, weekly.2011-01-20, weekly.2011-02-01 (+39 more)
3,754 commits (5.5%) · +481,570 / −292,023 lines · 184 authors
Led by Russ Cox (560 commits)
First commits: Shenghou Ma, Jan Ziak, Francisco Souza, Daniel Morsing, Akshat Kumar, Oling Cat (+94 more)
Released: weekly.2012-01-15, weekly.2012-01-20, weekly.2012-01-27, weekly.2012-02-07, weekly.2012-02-14 (+6 more)
3,380 commits (5.0%) · +356,306 / −337,557 lines · 191 authors
Led by Russ Cox (586 commits)
First commits: Keith Randall, Carl Shapiro, Dominik Honnef, ChaiShushan, Josh Bleecher Snyder, Matthew Dempsky (+101 more)
3,339 commits (4.9%) · +317,428 / −221,183 lines · 183 authors
Led by Russ Cox (736 commits)
First commits: Rui Ueyama, Rick Hudson, Evan Kroske, Martin Möhrmann, Dmitri Shuralyov, mike andrews (+88 more)
Released: go1.3beta1, go1.3beta2, go1.4beta1
4,788 commits (7.0%) · +598,185 / −437,114 lines · 252 authors
Led by Russ Cox (656 commits)
First commits: Todd Neal, Didier Spezia, Joe Tsai, David Chase, Hana Kim, Cherry Zhang (+150 more)
Released: go1.5beta1, go1.5beta2, go1.5beta3, go1.6beta1
4,803 commits (7.0%) · +658,360 / −264,069 lines · 292 authors
Led by Brad Fitzpatrick (482 commits)
First commits: Cherry Mui, Michael Munday, Vladimir Stefanovic, shaharko, Kevin Burke, Richard Miller (+163 more)
Released: go1.6beta2, go1.7beta1, go1.7beta2, go1.7rc1, go1.7rc2 (+4 more)
4,259 commits (6.2%) · +698,010 / −381,517 lines · 424 authors
Led by Josh Bleecher Snyder (426 commits)
First commits: Tobias Klauser, Ben Shi, Heschi Kreinick, Brian Kessler, Iskander Sharipov, Tim Cooper (+268 more)
Released: go1.9beta1, go1.9beta2, go1.9rc1, go1.9rc2, go1.9 (+3 more)
3,890 commits (5.7%) · +761,556 / −317,572 lines · 433 authors
Led by Ian Lance Taylor (263 commits)
First commits: Clément Chigot, Yury Smolsky, Michael Anthony Knyszek, Jordan Rhee, Zhou Peng, Ian Davis (+264 more)
Released: go1.10beta2, go1.10rc1, go1.10rc2, go1.11beta1, go1.11beta2 (+2 more)
3,396 commits (5.0%) · +649,152 / −513,492 lines · 406 authors
Led by Bryan C. Mills (305 commits)
First commits: Jeremy Faller, Dan Scales, Jonathan Amsterdam, Ruixin Bao, zdjones, Pantelis Sampaziotis (+232 more)
Released: go1.12beta2, go1.13beta1, go1.14beta1
3,989 commits (5.8%) · +585,363 / −643,069 lines · 352 authors
Led by Cherry Mui (462 commits)
First commits: Rob Findley, Roland Shoemaker, Paul Murphy, Heisenberg, Paschalis T, Carlos Alexandro Becker (+195 more)
Released: go1.15beta1, go1.16beta1
4,879 commits (7.2%) · +502,214 / −276,296 lines · 354 authors
Led by Robert Griesemer (500 commits)
First commits: jiahua wang, Xiaodong Liu, Manlio Perillo, korzhao, Leonard Wang, ZhouGuangyuan (+176 more)
Released: go1.17beta1, go1.18beta1
3,853 commits (5.7%) · +360,214 / −232,563 lines · 315 authors
Led by Robert Griesemer (319 commits)
First commits: hopehook, Guoqi Chen, Mateusz Poliwczak, Zeke Lu, Jorropo, Ludi Rehak (+155 more)
Released: go1.18beta2, go1.19beta1
3,724 commits (5.5%) · +486,880 / −195,586 lines · 307 authors
Led by Robert Griesemer (248 commits)
First commits: Jes Cok, Mauri de Souza Meneguzzo, qiulaidongfeng, Oleksandr Redko, Achille Roussel, Junxian Zhu (+141 more)
3,125 commits (4.6%) · +390,907 / −173,852 lines · 295 authors
Led by Robert Griesemer (173 commits)
First commits: guoguangwu, Sam Thanawalla, Daniel McCarney, Zxilly, Junyang Shao, Garrett Bodley (+137 more)
3,138 commits (4.6%) · +597,292 / −212,946 lines · 273 authors
Led by Michael Anthony Knyszek (162 commits)
First commits: Ian Alexander, Mark Freeman, Julien Cretel, Jake Bailey, jjpinto, mohanson (+125 more)
2,865 commits (4.2%) · +1,111,894 / −828,443 lines · 300 authors
Led by Michael Matloob (156 commits)
First commits: Ilya Torbin, harjoth, nnnkkk7, lazerg, davidteather, kovan (+155 more)
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# .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