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by ricardobeat 20 days ago
Something is wrong with that commit count. There are a total of ~4k commits over nine years [1].

It looks like the author revived the project recently with the help of AI, but the majority of commits are from 2017-2024. Github might be counting all the branch activity from agents.

[1] https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/graphs/contri...

2 comments

From the description of the graph you kindly provided:

  Contributions per week to master, line counts have been 
  omitted because commit count exceeds 10,000.
So I am confused as to the "total of ~4k commits over nine years" determination, unless this is in reference to commits Panzerschrek has made spanning the last two years (not nine).
I could swear it showed 4k commits for the "All" timeline. Probably a UI fluke. Wrong on both counts anyway, see author's comment! Either way, over 8-9 years that's not an abnormal pace.
No LLMs and "agents" were involved. All code is written by hand. In past several years I have had a lot of time for developing Ü, since I have quit my day-job.
I got that impression from the volume of english comments in the recent commits, vs russian commit messages, and the massive amount of feature branches. That's impressive dedication.