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sean
sean

Reputation: 3634

Github - Traffic - Strange "Git clones" statistics

I have a Github repo with some confusing Git clone statistics. As you can see below, the repository does not have a large number of visitors or Stars, and yet shows a relatively large number of clones on a Sep. 29.

The Github help page for traffic is not very helpful, but I assumed that a "clone" statistic would count each individual clone command issued. It does not seem possible that 3 cloners cloned this repo almost 400 times in one day.

What else could this statistic represent?

Github Traffic page screenshot

Upvotes: 33

Views: 7562

Answers (1)

sean
sean

Reputation: 3634

Since this was not expected behavior, I contacted Github Support and got this answer:

That number is accurate, and represents someone running git clone. However, I did a little digging, and those clones came from only 4 unique users.

One possibility is that it's just a script gone wrong.

So it wasn't "normal" behavior, but not a Github bug. The answer to my question is that this statistic does represent the git clone command.

Upvotes: 35

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