Overview
GitClear (owned by GitKraken) is a code-analytics vendor that measures commit quality, churn, duplication, and refactoring patterns across repositories. CEO Bill Harding publishes longitudinal research on ai-coding-tools impact on code-maintainability.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-07: Published maintainability study with GitKraken analyzing 623 million code changes (2023–2026) (2026-07-07-gitclear-ai-coding-maintainability-study)
- AI-assisted commits ~25% of volume
- +81% code duplication, −70% code reuse, −74% legacy refactoring, +47% error-masking “obfuscation” patterns
- 2025: Prior “AI Copilot Code Quality” report analyzed 211M changed lines (2020–2024)
GitClear sells code-analytics tooling — potential commercial framing bias. Metrics show correlation with AI adoption, not proven causation.