Github Stats card: Total commits count represents last 365 days, not current year as indicated

[harry-graham]

Discussed in https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/discussions/2498.

Overview

On the Github Stats card, the Total Commits (2023) value suggests that it represents the total number of commits made by the user in 2023.

However, the count actually represents the total commits by the user in the last 365 days.

Demonstration of this

Github Stats cards for reference

With count_private: false:

[![My GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=harry-graham&hide=stars&show_icons=true)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

With count_private: true:

[![My GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=harry-graham&hide=stars&count_private=true&show_icons=true)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Querying the API

With date range of this year only:

With date range of last 365 days, which matches the Github Stats cards shown above (with small difference likely due to caching):