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torvalds's public repositories have earned 249,077 GitHub stars since 2007, 702 of them in the last 90 days, across 12 tracked repositories.

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Stars

249k

across 12 tracked repos

Last 30 days

+555

new stars

Last 90 days

+702

slowing against the lifetime pace

Commits

6.4k

authored across 12 repos

Forks

66k

across owned repos

First commit

2007

earliest tracked year

Star history

Summed across 12 public repositories

Aggregate star history
stars from September 4, 2011 to September 15, 2026, peaking at 249,077.249k STARS15 YR249kSEP 2026SEP 2011

249,077 stars on September 15, 2026.

stars by date
Datestars
September 4, 201126
September 30, 20112,759
October 13, 20112,912
November 8, 20113,127
December 4, 20113,344
December 18, 20113,435
January 14, 20123,584
February 9, 20123,742
February 22, 20123,830
September 30, 20124,071
October 26, 20124,277
November 8, 20124,414
December 4, 20124,639
December 31, 20124,850
January 13, 20134,968
February 8, 20135,305
March 6, 20135,665
March 19, 20135,873
April 15, 20136,337
May 11, 20136,701
May 24, 20136,927
June 19, 20137,272
July 16, 20137,700
July 29, 20137,932
August 24, 20138,366
September 19, 20138,785
October 3, 20139,000
October 29, 20139,403
November 24, 20139,858
December 7, 201310,180
January 3, 201410,600
January 29, 201411,046
February 11, 201411,255
March 9, 201411,837
April 5, 201412,321
April 18, 201412,546
May 14, 201413,011
June 9, 201413,470
June 22, 201413,699
July 19, 201414,198
August 14, 201414,748
August 27, 201414,987
September 22, 201415,558
October 19, 201416,366
November 1, 201416,811
November 27, 201417,554
December 23, 201418,333
January 5, 201518,640
February 1, 201519,543
February 27, 201520,285
March 12, 201520,743
April 7, 201521,763
May 4, 201522,991
May 17, 201523,405
June 12, 201524,180
July 8, 201524,922
July 22, 201525,419
August 17, 201526,134
September 12, 201526,974
September 25, 201527,578
October 22, 201528,630
November 17, 201529,548
December 13, 201530,402
December 26, 201530,796
January 23, 201631,584
February 18, 201632,495
March 2, 201632,870
March 28, 201633,687
April 24, 201634,675
May 7, 201635,163
June 2, 201636,132
June 28, 201637,024
July 11, 201637,395
August 7, 201638,352
September 2, 201639,909
September 15, 201640,650
October 11, 201641,709
November 7, 201643,082
November 20, 201643,534
December 16, 201644,769
January 11, 201745,913
January 24, 201746,764
February 20, 201748,369
March 18, 201749,707
March 31, 201750,372
April 26, 201751,512
May 23, 201752,588
June 5, 201753,037
July 1, 201753,990
July 27, 201755,089
August 10, 201755,742
September 5, 201757,009
October 1, 201758,323
October 14, 201759,115
November 10, 201760,449
December 6, 201761,800
December 19, 201762,295
January 14, 201863,603
February 10, 201865,080
February 23, 201865,564
March 21, 201866,832
April 17, 201867,929
April 30, 201868,477
May 27, 201869,530
June 22, 201870,830
July 5, 201871,303
July 31, 201872,297
August 27, 201873,423
September 9, 201874,034
October 5, 201875,544
October 31, 201876,681
November 13, 201877,257
December 10, 201878,270
January 5, 201979,258
January 18, 201979,949
February 13, 201981,100
March 12, 201982,680
March 25, 201983,433
April 20, 201986,300
May 16, 201987,900
May 30, 201988,745
June 25, 201990,044
July 21, 201991,383
August 3, 201992,347
August 30, 201993,756
September 25, 201994,990
October 8, 201995,601
November 3, 201996,861
November 30, 201998,416
December 13, 201999,065
January 8, 2020100,409
February 3, 2020101,602
February 16, 2020102,256
March 14, 2020104,066
April 9, 2020105,460
April 22, 2020106,320
May 18, 2020107,897
June 14, 2020109,521
June 27, 2020110,271
July 23, 2020112,272
August 18, 2020113,870
September 1, 2020114,696
September 28, 2020116,362
October 24, 2020118,160
November 6, 2020119,127
December 2, 2020120,580
December 29, 2020122,250
January 11, 2021123,036
February 6, 2021124,622
March 4, 2021126,147
March 18, 2021127,449
April 13, 2021129,133
May 12, 2021131,920
May 25, 2021132,848
June 21, 2021134,389
July 17, 2021136,099
July 30, 2021136,900
August 27, 2021138,324
September 23, 2021140,184
October 6, 2021140,792
November 5, 2021141,676
December 1, 2021143,316
December 14, 2021144,149
January 10, 2022145,733
February 5, 2022148,925
February 18, 2022149,731
March 16, 2022151,417
April 12, 2022153,393
April 25, 2022154,165
May 21, 2022155,627
June 16, 2022157,048
June 30, 2022157,883
July 26, 2022159,432
August 21, 2022161,398
September 3, 2022162,203
September 29, 2022163,861
October 26, 2022165,727
November 8, 2022166,458
December 4, 2022168,064
December 30, 2022169,472
January 26, 2023171,224
February 8, 2023171,991
March 6, 2023173,788
April 1, 2023175,507
April 15, 2023176,369
May 11, 2023178,009
June 6, 2023179,868
June 19, 2023180,562
July 16, 2023181,943
August 11, 2023183,365
August 24, 2023184,083
September 19, 2023185,718
October 16, 2023187,274
October 29, 2023188,109
November 24, 2023190,104
December 20, 2023191,550
January 2, 2024192,280
January 29, 2024194,108
February 24, 2024195,939
March 8, 2024196,886
April 3, 2024198,857
April 30, 2024201,017
May 13, 2024201,949
June 8, 2024203,698
July 4, 2024205,364
July 18, 2024206,350
August 13, 2024208,043
September 8, 2024210,116
September 21, 2024211,129
October 17, 2024213,153
November 13, 2024215,396
November 26, 2024216,344
December 22, 2024217,958
January 17, 2025219,750
January 31, 2025220,652
February 26, 2025222,706
March 24, 2025224,846
April 6, 2025225,836
May 3, 2025227,801
May 29, 2025229,658
June 11, 2025230,367
July 7, 2025231,673
August 3, 2025233,026
August 16, 2025233,749
September 11, 2025235,057
October 7, 2025237,327
October 24, 2025237,712
November 20, 2025238,653
December 16, 2025240,339
December 29, 2025240,963
January 24, 2026243,967
February 20, 2026245,097
March 5, 2026245,933
March 31, 2026246,960
April 26, 2026247,878
May 10, 2026248,119
June 6, 2026248,375
July 2, 2026248,489
August 7, 2026248,522
September 15, 2026249,077

Top repositories

leaderboard

Each trace uses complete cumulative history only. A repository still being read shows its current GitHub totals without one.

Contribution story

Attributed public commits

torvalds has a balanced footprint across owned projects and the wider open-source ecosystem.

Owned repos

11

4.1k authored commits

Outside repos

1

2.3k authored commits

Outside share

36%

of attributed commit volume

Visionary

6

breakout projects spotted early

Contribution footprint
Contribution footprint for torvalds

Earned achievements

Proven by cached history

Streaks count consecutive calendar days authored by this resolved GitHub login across analyzed public repositories. Visionary uses complete star history to prove a contribution landed before a project grew past five times that star count and crossed 512 stars.

Code signals

11 analyzed of 12 repos

Aggregated from cached git history across the public repositories torvalds owns. Every drawing below is embeddable.

Language footprint
Language footprint for torvalds

Lines of code by language across every analyzed repo you own.

Commit activity
Commit activity for torvalds

Every commit landed in the last 52 weeks, summed across owned repos.

Maintenance footprint

Bot authors excluded

Solo-carried

8

of 11 scored repos, one person holds over half the commits

Shared

3

more than one author needed to reach half the commits

Commits 52w

79k

landed across owned repos in the last 52 weeks

Active streak

0d

20 day best across resolved public contributions

Read commits

1.5M

total commit history gitdebt has read

Most active · last 90 days

Languages across owned repos

C
94%
YAML
2%
JSON
2%
TypeScript
1%
Shell
1%
Rust
1%

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Aggregate star history
Aggregate star history across torvalds's public repos
Contribution footprint
Contribution footprint for torvalds
Language footprint
Language footprint for torvalds
Commit activity
Commit activity for torvalds

Tracked repositories

comparison builder

Each repository sheet carries the full star trace plus its code-health readings — change frequency, repair load, ownership concentration and more.

How this sheet is drawn

gitdebt sums the cumulative star history of torvalds's top public repositories (up to 50, by stars) from cached public star timestamps, and derives the code readings from cached git history — commits, commit days, language line counts and author concentration. Everything here is read from gitdebt's own database; nothing on this page queries GitHub while you wait. Repositories without cached history are read in the background and join the totals as they complete. Explore further on the leaderboard or by comparing star histories across repositories.

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