out of curiosity, because you and others keep repeating it as if it inherently means something obviously sinister, how did they count the 500K lines of code fro

out of curiosity, because you and others keep repeating it as if it inherently means something obviously sinister, how did they count the 500K lines of code from a vcs repository? is it actually 500K distinct lines of code? is it a number significantly smaller that was ballooned for dramatic effect because it appears in multiple revisions/branches/tags, etc.?