What's Inside a GitHub Repository? An Empirical Study on the Contents of 10K Projects (opens in new tab)

GitHub is the largest code hosting platform, with millions of repositories spanning multiple technologies. Despite this, little is known about the actual contents of GitHub's repositories in the wild. This paper presents an initial empirical analysis to better understand the contents of real-world GitHub repositories. We analyze the files, directories, and extensions present in 10,000 GitHub repositories, as well as their evolution over ten year...