AnalysisDevelopersAugust 20, 2026

GitHub now sees 2.9 billion commits a month — and it can't keep up

GitHub now processes 2.9 billion commits, 130 million merged pull requests, and 24 million new repositories per month. In April, the platform already struggled with 1.4 billion commits monthly; the surge is largely driven by the rise of coding agents.

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GitHub now sees 2.9 billion commits a month — and it can't keep up — AIBriefs