I'll have to pay closer attention next time I commit something, but I'm about 80% sure that this block is counting the number of files affected during a commit against your total, not the total number of commits you've done.
Robert Douglass twittered that I had 2009 commits, and after committing what I'm pretty sure was only one or two patches, I was up to 2018 or something.
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dwwThat's how CVS module has counted "commits" since the dawn of its existence. The block is no different from any other stats about commits anywhere on d.o...