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torvalds's public repositories have earned 249,104 GitHub stars since 2007, 716 of them in the last 90 days, across 12 tracked repositories.

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Stars

249k

across 12 tracked repos

Last 30 days

+581

new stars

Last 90 days

+716

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 16, 2026, peaking at 249,104.249k STARS15 YR249kSEP 2026SEP 2011

249,104 stars on September 16, 2026.

stars by date
Datestars
September 4, 201126
September 30, 20112,759
October 13, 20112,912
November 8, 20113,127
December 5, 20113,350
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 20, 20135,887
April 15, 20136,337
May 11, 20136,701
May 24, 20136,927
June 20, 20137,297
July 16, 20137,700
July 29, 20137,932
August 24, 20138,366
September 20, 20138,804
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 23, 201413,711
July 19, 201414,198
August 14, 201414,748
August 27, 201414,987
September 23, 201415,582
October 19, 201416,366
November 1, 201416,811
November 27, 201417,554
December 24, 201418,356
January 6, 201518,680
February 1, 201519,543
February 27, 201520,285
March 12, 201520,743
April 8, 201521,799
May 4, 201522,991
May 17, 201523,405
June 12, 201524,180
July 9, 201524,954
July 22, 201525,419
August 17, 201526,134
September 12, 201526,974
September 26, 201527,612
October 22, 201528,630
November 17, 201529,548
December 13, 201530,402
December 27, 201530,816
January 23, 201631,584
February 18, 201632,495
March 2, 201632,870
March 29, 201633,742
April 24, 201634,675
May 7, 201635,163
June 2, 201636,132
June 29, 201637,054
July 12, 201637,429
August 7, 201638,352
September 2, 201639,909
September 15, 201640,650
October 12, 201641,770
November 7, 201643,082
November 20, 201643,534
December 16, 201644,769
January 12, 201745,982
January 25, 201746,829
February 20, 201748,369
March 18, 201749,707
April 1, 201750,419
April 27, 201751,562
May 23, 201752,588
June 5, 201753,037
July 2, 201754,019
July 28, 201755,140
August 10, 201755,742
September 5, 201757,009
October 2, 201758,392
October 15, 201759,152
November 10, 201760,449
December 6, 201761,800
December 19, 201762,295
January 15, 201863,663
February 10, 201865,080
February 23, 201865,564
March 21, 201866,832
April 18, 201867,978
May 1, 201868,514
May 27, 201869,530
June 22, 201870,830
July 6, 201871,357
August 1, 201872,337
August 27, 201873,423
September 9, 201874,034
October 6, 201875,583
November 1, 201876,731
November 14, 201877,312
December 10, 201878,270
January 6, 201979,288
January 19, 201979,985
February 14, 201981,166
March 12, 201982,680
March 25, 201983,433
April 21, 201986,360
May 17, 201987,981
May 30, 201988,745
June 25, 201990,044
July 22, 201991,427
August 4, 201992,401
August 30, 201993,756
September 25, 201994,990
October 9, 201995,663
November 4, 201996,915
November 30, 201998,416
December 13, 201999,065
January 9, 2020100,457
February 4, 2020101,647
February 17, 2020102,342
March 14, 2020104,066
April 10, 2020105,519
April 23, 2020106,386
May 19, 2020107,969
June 14, 2020109,521
June 27, 2020110,271
July 24, 2020112,346
August 19, 2020113,937
September 2, 2020114,763
September 28, 2020116,362
October 25, 2020118,206
November 7, 2020119,178
December 3, 2020120,638
December 29, 2020122,250
January 12, 2021123,098
February 7, 2021124,687
March 5, 2021126,216
March 18, 2021127,449
April 14, 2021129,220
May 13, 2021131,981
May 26, 2021132,918
June 21, 2021134,389
July 18, 2021136,169
July 31, 2021136,942
August 28, 2021138,388
September 23, 2021140,184
October 6, 2021140,792
November 6, 2021141,749
December 2, 2021143,378
December 15, 2021144,211
January 10, 2022145,733
February 6, 2022148,994
February 19, 2022149,793
March 17, 2022151,485
April 12, 2022153,393
April 26, 2022154,217
May 22, 2022155,693
June 17, 2022157,106
June 30, 2022157,883
July 27, 2022159,492
August 22, 2022161,466
September 4, 2022162,256
September 30, 2022163,915
October 27, 2022165,784
November 9, 2022166,521
December 5, 2022168,122
December 31, 2022169,513
January 27, 2023171,289
February 9, 2023172,041
March 7, 2023173,862
April 2, 2023175,556
April 15, 2023176,369
May 12, 2023178,077
June 7, 2023179,925
June 20, 2023180,610
July 16, 2023181,943
August 12, 2023183,409
August 25, 2023184,139
September 20, 2023185,782
October 16, 2023187,274
October 30, 2023188,246
November 25, 2023190,146
December 21, 2023191,613
January 3, 2024192,348
January 30, 2024194,182
February 25, 2024195,993
March 9, 2024196,953
April 4, 2024198,917
May 1, 2024201,089
May 14, 2024202,025
June 9, 2024203,744
July 5, 2024205,420
July 18, 2024206,350
August 14, 2024208,103
September 9, 2024210,195
September 22, 2024211,237
October 18, 2024213,222
November 14, 2024215,475
November 27, 2024216,415
December 23, 2024218,020
January 18, 2025219,809
February 1, 2025220,726
February 27, 2025222,779
March 25, 2025224,913
April 7, 2025225,905
May 4, 2025227,870
May 30, 2025229,697
June 12, 2025230,419
July 8, 2025231,729
August 4, 2025233,070
August 17, 2025233,804
September 12, 2025235,114
October 8, 2025237,375
October 25, 2025237,750
November 21, 2025238,704
December 17, 2025240,385
December 30, 2025241,009
January 25, 2026244,011
February 21, 2026245,148
March 6, 2026245,974
April 1, 2026246,998
April 27, 2026247,894
May 11, 2026248,134
June 7, 2026248,388
July 3, 2026248,490
August 11, 2026248,523
September 16, 2026249,104

Top repositories

leaderboard

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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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