How Long Would It Take a Human to Handwrite All of GitHub?

Ans: 270 million years


Note:

All data in this piece are rough estimates for scale and comparison only.

GitHub does not publicly release its full daily commit totals or total lines of code.

Figures such as “300 million repositories,” “100 million commits per day,” and “3×10¹⁵ characters” are illustrative assumptions.

According to the GitHub Octoverse reports, the platform indeed hosts billions of contributions and hundreds of millions of projects — the real number may be even higher.