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BTW, here we are: LOC metric everyone made fun of has suddenly became commit count metric.

Features? Bugfixes? What? Look how many commits we've got!

1. They weren't counting LOC though, but commits. It's a totally different metric.

2. This type of stat was always being shared with each new release, giving a general indication of the size of changes. They did not started posting it all of a sudden due to AI.

> 1. They weren't counting LOC though, but commits. It's a totally different metric.

Is this satire? :D

I think in Linux world commits usually mean something which isn’t always the case at random company X. A commit being a meaningful change where number of lines doesn’t matter.

A commit can delete or modify lines, it at least isn't as bad as the "more code = better" approach, though perhaps it's still flawed in that you could have lots of very minor commits to increase the count, or do and then undo a change to get 2 free commits.

It felt to me like it's more of a neat fact rather than a measure of quality.

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