nvbn/thefuck

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

97.9k stars · 4k forks · Python

Avoid

Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.

Why

No human commits since January 2024, and only 0 of 28 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)

What would change this

A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.

Maintenance

Complete

Dormant

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 0
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Jan 25, 2024 (2 years ago)
Last human commit: Jan 25, 2024 (2 years ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: Jan 2, 2022 (4 years ago)
Median PR merge time: 6 days

Responsiveness: of 28 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 100 since Dec 23, 2019
Authors for half of commits: 4
Authors for 80% of commits: 26
Contributors: 168

Top committers

scorphus: 32% of commits
dvjn: 10% of commits
hugovk: 5% of commits
nvbn: 4% of commits
abraham-chan: 2% of commits

No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2019-12-23T16:57:42Z.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jun 16, 2015 to Jun 17, 2015: about 421 more stars than usual, peak 369 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 24, 2015 to Jul 31, 2015: about 303 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 8, 2015 to Oct 9, 2015: about 320 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jan 4, 2016 to Jan 9, 2016: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 414 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 21, 2016 to Mar 22, 2016: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 23, 2016 to Jun 24, 2016: about 205 more stars than usual, peak 151 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 22, 2016 to Aug 24, 2016: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 17, 2017 to Apr 21, 2017: about 848 more stars than usual, peak 515 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 2, 2017 to May 10, 2017: about 837 more stars than usual, peak 258 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 20, 2017 to Aug 25, 2017: about 378 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 18, 2018 to Sep 20, 2018: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Oct 18, 2018 to Oct 19, 2018: about 276 more stars than usual, peak 225 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Dec 17, 2018 to Dec 19, 2018: about 206 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 22, 2019 to Apr 24, 2019: about 188 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 13, 2019 to Aug 16, 2019: about 316 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 27, 2019 to Oct 3, 2019: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 300 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 21, 2019 to Oct 24, 2019: about 487 more stars than usual, peak 274 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 5, 2020 to Oct 10, 2020: about 538 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 24, 2020 to Nov 26, 2020: about 140 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 17, 2020 to Dec 18, 2020: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 18, 2021 to Jan 21, 2021: about 115 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 28, 2021 to May 11, 2021: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 317 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 28, 2021 to Jan 5, 2022: about 400 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 18, 2022 to Apr 2, 2022: about 2.1k more stars than usual, peak 369 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Jul 13, 2022 to Jul 13, 2022: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 17, 2023: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 10, 2023 to Jul 12, 2023: about 221 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 16, 2023 to Jul 17, 2023: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 31, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 21, 2024 to Feb 23, 2024: about 373 more stars than usual, peak 320 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Dec 19, 2024 to Jan 6, 2025: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 403 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 4, 2026 to Apr 14, 2026: about 561 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

8 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 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

Complete

Flags

Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.5 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

thefuck (PYPI): latest 3.32.0, published Jan 2, 2022
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: nvbn/thefuck, deps.dev: PyPI thefuck

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
Oct 13, 2026: Avoid

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2