How do I generate stats on GitHub?

You can find the link to the left of the nav bar. You should have a look to repoXplorer, an open source project I develop . It is able to compute stats for a project (a group of git repositories) as well as for a contributor and a group of contributors. It provides a REST interface and a web UI.

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Is git written in C++?

In fact, Git’s original code base – or initial commit – is entirely 100% written in C (besides the Makefile). If you’re familiar with other more modern statically typed languages like Java or C++, you shouldn’t have too many problems reading C code.

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