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gitdb

IO of git-style object databases
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

gitdb has 245.3M monthly downloads and 225 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.12 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2010.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2025.

It is built on top of smmap. It is used by 194 tracked packages, including gitpython, mistral-vibe and aider-chat.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (gitpython-developers/gitdb) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
6.7M
Week
50.7M
Month
245.3M
Stars
225
Forks
69
Issues
6
Version
4.0.12

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
51
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
245,323,088
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
245,323,088
Stars
225
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
7,240,583
Month daily avg
8,177,436
Momentum
-11.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
552 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
1.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
• Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
33
Monthly downloads
245,323,088
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
54
 
Issue Burden
26.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
536d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.5M
Windows 92.7K
macOS 35.0K

Python Versions

3.10
29.3% 1.2M
3.12
26.9% 1.1M
3.11
25.7% 1.1M
3.13
11.8% 489.8K
3.14
6.3% 260.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
3.6M
2. GB GB
157.7K
3. SG SG
150.5K
4. NL NL
134.1K
5. DE DE
92.8K
6. IE IE
74.6K
7. FI FI
45.1K
8. IN IN
40.5K
9. KR KR
37.9K
10. CA CA
32.7K

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
July 8, 2010
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
4.0.12
Total Releases
22
Contributors
33
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Sebastian Thiel
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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