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by hk__2 2956 days ago
Git was created by Linus Torvalds, but out of the 50k+ commits on the repo, only 250 or so are from him, with only 14 in the past 6 years. [1]

[1] https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors?from=2012-03-...

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Here is a more detailed analysis, which shows all contributors:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit...

These are contributions by Linus:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit...

and as you can see, his contributions, really tapered off after 2010, while contributions from Hamano remained steady from 2008 to present date, as shown below:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit....