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> Crazy. Interesting how the repo growth is faster than the new user growth. That's a lot of projects :)

Not that surprising. I see a lot of people fork repos only to do nothing with them. It's like forking on github is a 'packrat-ish' form of the 'watching' feature.

I'd be more interested in a number that excluded either all forked repos, or forked repos with no new commits since the fork.



I read the 1000 new repos as actual new repos, not forks. But yah if it is just forks that it isn't as impressive.


Forks represent around 30% of the total repos on our site, so the new, unique repos created daily still outpace new users.


That's impressive then. I wonder if there are any stats on the size of these repos (i.e. are people creating new repos for everything -- even tiny one-off scripts -- rather than just rolling the smaller stuff into a single repo?)


IIRC, github's pastebin (gist.github.com) creates new repositories for fresh pastes.


That's true, but we are not counting Gists in these Repository stats.




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