# Linus Torvalds GitHub: https://github.com/torvalds Addresses: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@osdl.org Messages: 6171. Patches: 213. Threads started: 441. First message: 2005-04-13T20:15:57Z. Latest: 2023-04-14T17:05:23Z. ## Messages per year | Year | Messages | Patches | |---|---|---| | 2005 | 1559 | 9 | | 2006 | 1551 | 37 | | 2007 | 1323 | 59 | | 2008 | 742 | 52 | | 2009 | 374 | 29 | | 2010 | 122 | 6 | | 2011 | 109 | 5 | | 2012 | 46 | 0 | | 2013 | 30 | 0 | | 2014 | 23 | 3 | | 2015 | 30 | 0 | | 2016 | 75 | 3 | | 2017 | 93 | 8 | | 2018 | 49 | 2 | | 2019 | 11 | 0 | | 2020 | 12 | 0 | | 2021 | 5 | 0 | | 2022 | 16 | 0 | | 2023 | 1 | 0 | ## Patch series 58 merged, 18 not merged, 0 in review (posted in the last 90 days); acceptance rate 76%. Re-rolls count once; merged means a patch matches a commit on master by the same author. - 2018-07-07 merged (v2): [Add 'human' date format](https://gitlist.dev/t/48836) commit acdd37769de8 - 2017-04-03 not merged: [Fix 'git am' in-body header continuations](https://gitlist.dev/t/45592) - 2017-03-16 not merged: [Integrate the sha1dc code with the git build](https://gitlist.dev/t/45400) - 2017-03-16 not merged: [Re-integrate sha1dc](https://gitlist.dev/t/45399) - 2017-03-01 not merged: [Put sha1dc on a diet](https://gitlist.dev/t/45255) - 2017-02-11 not merged: [show decorations at the end of the line](https://gitlist.dev/t/45115) - 2017-02-08 merged: [pathspec: don't error out on all-exclusionary pathspec patterns](https://gitlist.dev/t/45081) commit 859b7f1d0e74 - 2017-02-08 merged: [pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'](https://gitlist.dev/t/45080) commit 42ebeb9d07de - 2017-02-02 not merged: [ls-remote: add "--diff" option to show only refs that differ](https://gitlist.dev/t/45024) - 2016-12-16 not merged: [Allow "git shortlog" to group by committer information](https://gitlist.dev/t/44277) - 2016-08-16 not merged: [Prefer "long" key format output when verifying pgp signatures](https://gitlist.dev/t/43865) - 2016-03-16 not merged: [pretty-print: de-tabify indented logs to make things line up properly](https://gitlist.dev/t/41709) - 2014-05-29 merged: [git log: support "auto" decorations](https://gitlist.dev/t/36786) commit 1571586648da - 2014-01-23 not merged: [Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote](https://gitlist.dev/t/35715) - 2014-01-22 not merged: [Make 'git request-pull' more strict about matching local/remote branches](https://gitlist.dev/t/35713) - 2011-07-14 not merged: [Add a 'generation' number to commits](https://gitlist.dev/t/27819) - 2011-02-19 merged: [for_each_hash: allow passing a 'void *data' pointer to callback](https://gitlist.dev/t/26556) commit 11f944dd6bda - 2011-02-19 not merged: [Git rename detection improvements](https://gitlist.dev/t/26555) - 2010-05-13 merged: [Make :/ accept a regex rather than a fixed pattern](https://gitlist.dev/t/23802) commit 57895105c4ff - 2010-01-22 merged: [make more commands built-in](https://gitlist.dev/t/22341) commit 0ecace728f8e - 2009-08-06 merged: [block-sha1: improved SHA1 hashing](https://gitlist.dev/t/20441) commit 66c9c6c0fbba - 2009-07-23 merged: [git branch: fix performance problem](https://gitlist.dev/t/20211) commit e6e4a47ba12b - 2009-07-14 merged (v2): [Fix extraneous lstat's in 'git checkout -f'](https://gitlist.dev/t/20104) commit 05c1da2f5e7a - 2009-07-14 merged: [Improve on the 'invalid object' error message at commit time](https://gitlist.dev/t/20109) commit a38837341c99 - 2009-07-09 merged: [Add 'fill_directory()' helper function for directory traversal](https://gitlist.dev/t/20041) commit da4b3e8c28b1 - 2009-05-09 merged: [Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()'](https://gitlist.dev/t/19260) commit 658dd48c8572 - 2009-03-31 merged: [speed up reflog unreachability pruning](https://gitlist.dev/t/18668) commit 666e07e69703 - 2008-12-17 merged: [Be careful about lstat()-vs-readlink()](https://gitlist.dev/t/16769) commit b11b7e13f48e - 2008-11-03 merged: [Add a 'source' decorator for commits](https://gitlist.dev/t/16151) commit 6e381d3aff89 - 2008-06-18 merged: [Add 'core.fsyncobjectfiles' config option](https://gitlist.dev/t/14018) commit 806e2ad7fe2d ## Recent emails - 2023-04-14 [Re: [Question] Can git cat-file have a type filtering option?](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHk-%3Dwjr-CMLX2Jo2%2B%2Brwcv0VNr%2BHmZqXEVXNsJGiPRUwNxzBQ%40mail.gmail.com) - 2022-08-01 [Re: "git symbolic-ref" doesn't do a very good job](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHk-%3Dwh64fFWR_%3DtMFLVW-ozHb5w2VoAGgpsMAuSNDVYexRRDw%40mail.gmail.com) - 2022-08-01 [Re: "git symbolic-ref" doesn't do a very good job](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHk-%3Dwg8EaHnM_OcHrw%3D%2BsT3VPAkTUpzeaQ8EjTDLUENK58HSw%40mail.gmail.com) - 2022-07-31 [Re: "git symbolic-ref" doesn't do a very good job](https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHk-%3Dwi5pfUcuaAUz%3Drifon9d51mshE7k6bkpMXddog0On9jow%40mail.gmail.com) - 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