torvalds/linux
torvalds/linux has 32,360,193 source lines of code out of 42,579,767 total lines across 89,182 files, counted from the master ref at commit a5ebb76233b7 by the OctoCounts tokei engine on 2026-10-11. The report is cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so recounting the same revision returns exactly these numbers.
As of 2026-10-11 (commit a5ebb76233b7), torvalds/linux contains 42,579,767 total lines: 32,360,193 code, 4,869,429 comments, 5,350,145 blank, across 89,182 files in 50 languages (top: C 60.8%). Custom configuration (tests excluded, docs excluded, generated excluded). Counted with tokei via OctoCounts.
OctoCounts produced this report by resolving torvalds/linux to commit a5ebb76233b7, downloading the repository source archive, and counting every source file with tokei, the open-source line counter written in Rust. The table below breaks the count down by programming language into files, total lines, code lines, comment lines, and blank lines, so the figures can be compared across languages and projects. Results are cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so counting the same revision again reproduces exactly these numbers.
Repository size insights
This is a very large codebase by counted code lines. Code represents 76.0% of all lines, comments represent 11.4%, and the repository averages 363 code lines per file. C accounts for 60.8% of counted code.
| Language | Files | Lines | Code | Comments | Blanks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | 36808 | 26412284 | 19679929 | 2926993 | 3805362 |
| C Header | 27033 | 10716226 | 8314448 | 1605129 | 796649 |
| Device Tree | 6461 | 2153401 | 1769536 | 93857 | 290008 |
| ReStructuredText | 4046 | 833700 | 632957 | 0 | 200743 |
| JSON | 1047 | 613720 | 613718 | 0 | 2 |
| YAML | 5790 | 663337 | 541468 | 24432 | 97437 |
| GNU Style Assembly | 1324 | 370632 | 269852 | 56872 | 43908 |
| Shell | 1063 | 211201 | 146944 | 26681 | 37576 |
| Rust | 488 | 128329 | 97772 | 14254 | 16303 |
| Python | 391 | 115658 | 90548 | 7219 | 17891 |
| Makefile | 3175 | 87465 | 60798 | 13584 | 13083 |
| SVG | 87 | 57503 | 56094 | 1311 | 98 |
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How many lines of code does torvalds/linux have?
torvalds/linux has 42,579,767 total lines, including 32,360,193 code lines, 4,869,429 comment lines, and 5,350,145 blank lines.
How was the torvalds/linux line count measured?
OctoCounts resolved the public GitHub repository to commit a5ebb76233b7, downloaded the source archive, counted it with tokei, and cached the report by commit, tokei version, and analysis options.
What commit was counted for torvalds/linux?
This OctoCounts report was generated from master at commit a5ebb76233b7 on 2026-10-11T02:32:48.670379239+00:00.
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