VS Code
What stands out
Next to the 106 other projects of GitStats Gallery: where VS Code is in the top or bottom 15%.
- 98%Days with a commit
VS Code has had a commit by a person on 98% of the days since its first one: 3,916 days in 11 years.
5th highest of 97; the median project: 80% of days.
- 68%AI-assisted commits
The share of VS Code's commits that name an AI coding assistant went from 6% in Aug–Oct 2025 to 68% in Aug–Oct 2026.
4th highest of 72; in the median project it rose by 5 points.
- 1.6×Against its busiest year
VS Code's last 12 months were its busiest yet: 26,073 commits by people, more than in any full year before (16,400 in 2025).
2nd highest of 90; the median project made 50% of its busiest year.
- Commits
- 170,025
- 43.4 per active day · 42.4 per day
- Authors
- 2,890
- 58.8 commits per author
- Lines of Code
- 6,974,749
- +13,469,833 added · −6,494,819 removed
- Files
- 20,745
- 124 extensions
- Active Days
- 3,916
- of 4,007 days · 97.7%
- Longest Streak
- 386 days
- consecutive active days
Commits per year
Top contributors
| Author | Commits | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Pasero | 14,749 | 8.7% | |
| Johannes Rieken | 12,778 | 7.5% | |
| Daniel Imms | 12,520 | 7.4% | |
| Matt Bierner | 10,737 | 6.3% | |
| Sandeep Somavarapu | 9,507 | 5.6% |
Latest releases
| Tag | Date | Commits | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.134.0 | 2026-08-19 | 22,958 | roblourens, Lee Murray +401 |
| 1.106.0 | 2025-11-10 | 75,187 | Daniel Imms, Benjamin Pasero +1363 |
| v14 | 2020-05-07 | 11,596 | Benjamin Pasero, Johannes Rieken +279 |
| 1.38.0 | 2019-09-03 | 30,782 | João Moreno, Matt Bierner +737 |
| 1.16.0 | 2017-09-01 | 5,922 | Benjamin Pasero, João Moreno +155 |
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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