Comment by jammygit

My last company had a code base with X LOC and Y engineers, and it took Z years to write. It was medical software, so it was very heavily tested. It worked out to about 14-20 LOC per day per engineer, although for the first few years the team was smaller so let’s say 28-40 during those years (maybe even doubled once or twice temporarily when the company was founded). The slowness later on made up for the speed early on

In terms of lines of changes total in git merges, multiply it by 10 or more.

edit: updated loc numbers to include some file types that I forgot about