14 DAY TRIAL // Linus Torvalds has shared some interesting information about the number of commits and the size of the Linux project in general, allowing users to get a little perspective on how massive this endeavor is.
A new Linux kernel, 3.11 Release Candidate 6, has been announced just a few hours ago and Linus Torvalds chose to share some stats about the kernel.
“We've now used git for over eight years, and we have almost 400k commits in that time. That's interesting (to me), because back in the BK days we were approaching the (back then) limit of 65k commits in BK in the three years we used it. So we've long since blown through that limit,” reads the announcement for the new kernel.
The Linux maintainer has also promised to reveal more statistics when the next Release Candidate is launched because, most likely, it will coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the original Linux announcement on comp.os.minix.