From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] git(1): remove a defunct link to "list of authors" Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:24:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20121212122448.GA20057@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <7vobi5hhn9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk3sthhfy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vboe2ct9p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 12 13:25:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TilN7-0001NX-5n for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:25:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752650Ab2LLMYx (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:24:53 -0500 Received: from 75-15-5-89.uvs.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([75.15.5.89]:42867 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751561Ab2LLMYw (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:24:52 -0500 Received: (qmail 23799 invoked by uid 107); 12 Dec 2012 12:25:54 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:25:54 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:24:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:04:40PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > With or without "--no-merges", the big picture you can get out of > > "git shortlog -s -n --since=1.year" does not change very much, but > > the headline numbers give a wrong impression. > > These numbers are approximate anyway. Commit counts or the number of > changed lines do not accurately reflect the effort in many cases. And > about merges, in this particular case of Git where the maintainer imo > has done an excellent job as a guard, I'd say it's the credit for > reviewing, not simply merging. I agree that commit count is approximate. But counting merges is really quite a large factor of error (in git.git, it more than doubles Junio's count, and represents over 20% of the total number of commits). The GitHub contributors page counts merges _and_ fails to use mailmap. Yuck. I'm working on fixing that now. > But not using the link is fine too. We can wait for Jeff's patch to be > merged. After the discussion in the PR, I am inclined to think the site (and possibly the manpage) should just point to some decent contributors graph (either GitHub, ohloh, or something else; suggestions welcome). Anything else is just recreating a crappy static version of something that could be much more dynamic and explorable. I find the ohloh one a little more informative than the GitHub graph. I couldn't find any others (Google Code does not seem to have one, kernel.org and other gitweb sites do not, and I can't think of anywhere else that hosts a mirror). -Peff