Some of you may of course think what, only 20,000 commits after almost thirty years in the project, what kind of slacker is that guy?
But yes, today I merged my 20,000th commit into the curl repository – out of a total of 37,604 commits (53%). Not that anyone is counting.
20,000 – Today, January 17, 2026
19,000 – March 2025
18,000 – February 2024
17,000 – December 2022
16,000 – November 2021
15,000 – September 2020
The first kept curl git commit is dated December 29, 1999. That is the date of our source code import into SourceForge as I quite annoyingly decided to not keep the prior history. The three years of development and the commits that happened before that import date are therefore not included in this count.
These 20,000 commits have been done on 5,589 separate days, meaning 59% of all days since December 1999. It also means I have done an average of 2.1 commits per day since then.
The curl commits done before 2010 were not actually made with git, but with CVS. The curl source repository was converted to git when we switched hosting over to GitHub.
As of today, 1,431 separate individuals have authored commits merged into the curl source repository. 16 of us have made more than 100 commits. Five authors have written more than 1,000 commits. 941 of the authors only wrote a single commit (so far)!
The second-most curl committer by number of commits (Yang Tse) has almost 2,600 commits but he stopped being active already back in 2013.
My fellow top committers
The top-20 all time curl commit authors as of now:
- Daniel Stenberg (20000 commits)
- Yang Tse (2587 commits)
- Viktor Szakats (2496 commits)
- Steve Holme (1916 commits)
- Dan Fandrich (1435 commits)
- Stefan Eissing (941 commits)
- Jay Satiro (773 commits)
- Guenter Knauf (662 commits)
- Gisle Vanem (498 commits)
- Marc Hoersken (461 commits)
- Marcel Raad (405 commits)
- Patrick Monnerat (362 commits)
- Kamil Dudka (255 commits)
- Daniel Gustafsson (217 commits)
- renovate[bot] (183 commits)
- Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa (150 commits)
- Michael Kaufmann (84 commits)
- Alessandro Ghedini (83 commits)
- Fabian Keil (77 commits)
- Nick Zitzmann (70 commits)
Graphs
My share of the total amount of commits has been shrinking gradually since a long time and that is a good thing. It means we have awesome contributors and maintainers helping out. Not too far into the future I expect my share to go below 50%.
Future
These are my first 20,000 commits.
I have no plans to go anywhere. I have averaged at about 800 commits per year in the curl source code repository for the last 25 years. That would imply reaching 30,000 would take another 12.5 years, so about by mid 2038 or so. If I manage to keep up that speed. Feels distant.
Which one?
This was my commit 20,000.