GitHub publishes its 2026 Octoverse report
What happened
GitHub released its Octoverse 2026 report at Universe, as reported by Simon Willison on October 29. Merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million a month. Commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion a month, with most of the growth coming in the second half of this year. New repositories doubled this year to 30.3 million a month.
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- Simon WillisonPickGitHub Octoverse 2026: merged pull requests triple to 220 million a month
GitHub released its Octoverse 2026 report at Universe. Merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million a month, and commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion a month, with most of the growth in the second half of the year. New repositories doubled this year to 30.3 million a month.
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