✦ vol. i · issue 01 · repositories

Lay a repository on the
table. We take it
apart, gently.

Paste a GitHub URL and we’ll file the commits, tally the authors, weigh the extensions, and draw you the shape of the work. Nothing is uploaded — data lives beside the code, in data/github/<owner>/<repo>.

CHAPTER II

What we count.

  1. i.

    Chronology

    Commits per day, first & last, the rhythm of the branch, silences between pushes.

  2. ii.

    Authorship

    Names, e-mails, lines added — modified — deleted. Who held the pen, and when.

  3. iii.

    Material

    An autopsy by file-extension. What the codebase is, measured by volume and count.

  4. iv.

    Milestones

    Tags laid out on a single horizon — versions as moments in the life of the project.