sharkdp/fd

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

15

Human commits, 90 days

45

Human commits, 365 days

232

Bot share of commits, 365 days

22%

Last commit

Oct 6, 2026 (9 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 6, 2026 (9 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

8

Last release

Aug 26, 2026 (1 month ago)

Median PR merge time

4 days

Responsiveness: of 16 recent issues, 69% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 28 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

232 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

8

Contributors

208

Top committers

• tmccombs: 62% of commits
• tavianator: 4% of commits
• curious-rabbit: 4% of commits
• DeflateAwning: 3% of commits
• crackedsdev: 2% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jun 13, 2017 to Jun 15, 2017: about 37 more stars than usual, peak 19 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 10, 2017 to Sep 11, 2017: about 26 more stars than usual, peak 16 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Oct 8, 2017 to Oct 27, 2017: about 2.7k more stars than usual, peak 770 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.
• Jan 7, 2018 to Jan 11, 2018: about 440 more stars than usual, peak 216 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 30, 2018 to Sep 5, 2018: about 248 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Nov 19, 2018 to Nov 20, 2018: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 9, 2019 to Jan 11, 2019: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 20, 2019 to May 21, 2019: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 8, 2021 to Aug 11, 2021: about 212 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 12, 2022 to Apr 18, 2022: about 415 more stars than usual, peak 192 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 20, 2022 to May 24, 2022: about 647 more stars than usual, peak 395 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.
• Jun 3, 2022 to Jun 4, 2022: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 8, 2025 to Jan 15, 2025: about 283 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 19, 2025 to Mar 25, 2025: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 572 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Aug 16, 2025 to Aug 21, 2025: about 128 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 5 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Not known

Packages

• fd-find (CARGO): latest 10.5.0, published Aug 26, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: sharkdp/fd, deps.dev: Cargo fd-find