megadose/holehe vs nvbn/thefuck
nvbn/thefuck shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, thefuck shows healthier maintenance signals than holehe. thefuck rates Healthy overall while holehe rates Mixed. holehe last saw a commit 1 year ago with 22+ active contributors, while thefuck last saw a commit 1 year ago with 46+ active contributors. holehe is GPL-3.0-licensed while thefuck is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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megadose/holehe →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 2y ago…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓22+ 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)
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
nvbn/thefuck →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ✓46+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| holehe | thefuck | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,926 | 96,830 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 1y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 74 | 426 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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