I published an updated extension of this post's linked article in Empirical Software Engineering. You can read it without a paywall at https://rdcu.be/b7FzE. You may also be interested to see the actual GitHub repository at https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.
670,000 commits. Thats big. But only 2K merges? I assume push straight to master in most cases?
I don't think either SCCS or RCS tracked merges, so everything looks like a new revision.
also rebases instead of merges wouldn't count as merges
I published an updated extension of this post's linked article in Empirical Software Engineering. You can read it without a paywall at https://rdcu.be/b7FzE. You may also be interested to see the actual GitHub repository at https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.
Interesting to see the decisions they took regarding which flavours they chose to include.
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