Churn and bug fixes

What it measures

Churn is the sum of lines added and removed over the history. Bug fix commits are commits whose message contains fix, bug, hotfix, defect or regression.

How to read it

Height is churn, red means many bug fix commits.

low highest value in project

Why it matters

Code that is rewritten a lot and fixed often points to unclear requirements or a fragile design. Bug fixes are only detected by the commit message.

In other projects

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