agwa/git-crypt vs lizardbyte/sunshine
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than git-crypt. sunshine rates Healthy overall while git-crypt rates Mixed. git-crypt last saw a commit 9 months ago with 10+ active contributors, while sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors. Both use the GPL-3.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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agwa/git-crypt →
Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 90% of recent commits…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 90% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 8mo ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
lizardbyte/sunshine →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| git-crypt | sunshine | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9,644 | 36,974 |
| Last commit | 9mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 125 | 106 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 47% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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