dandavison/delta

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

17

Human commits, 90 days

21

Human commits, 365 days

43

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 5, 2026 (10 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 5, 2026 (10 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

6

Last release

Oct 4, 2026 (10 days ago)

Median PR merge time

24 hours

Responsiveness: of 18 recent issues, 22% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 17 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

43 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

5

Contributors

151

Top committers

• dandavison: 58% of commits
• th1000s: 9% of commits
• stefanhaller: 7% of commits
• charlievieth: 5% of commits
• injust: 5% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Sep 28, 2019 to Oct 3, 2019: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 30 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 26, 2019 to Oct 26, 2019: about 17 more stars than usual, peak 20 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 11, 2019 to Nov 13, 2019: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 19, 2020 to Feb 19, 2020: about 18 more stars than usual, peak 20 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 27, 2020 to May 19, 2020: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 551 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 25, 2020 to May 28, 2020: about 173 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 1, 2020 to Jun 3, 2020: about 126 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 31, 2020 to Aug 5, 2020: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 19, 2020 to Oct 21, 2020: about 311 more stars than usual, peak 201 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 22, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021: about 370 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 1, 2021 to May 7, 2021: about 444 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 12, 2022 to Apr 16, 2022: about 207 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 18, 2022 to Apr 21, 2022: about 165 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 7, 2022 to Sep 9, 2022: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 20, 2023 to Mar 21, 2023: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 15, 2023 to Sep 18, 2023: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 27, 2024 to Aug 28, 2024: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Sep 4, 2024 to Sep 7, 2024: about 325 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 8, 2024 to Nov 15, 2024: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 472 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Jul 18, 2025 to Jul 19, 2025: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 23, 2025 to Aug 26, 2025: about 133 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 29, 2026 to Mar 30, 2026: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 18, 2026 to Apr 21, 2026: about 163 more stars than usual, peak 110 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 29, 2026 to Aug 31, 2026: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

• Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.6 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• git-delta (CARGO): latest 0.20.1, published Oct 4, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: dandavison/delta, deps.dev: Cargo git-delta