From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] git checkout: one bugfix and one cosmetic change Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:39:25 +0100 Message-ID: <49BFA80D.6040504@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <20090317084352.GL18475@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kris Shannon , Kjetil Barvik , Git Mailing List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 17 14:41:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjZXb-0006eW-Bp for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752683AbZCQNjn (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752304AbZCQNjm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:42 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:59710 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751703AbZCQNjm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:42 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C5C2F35EE; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:39 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 1iN4fNY8M8gI71K0kAsdsWgrzcbnpsgiwGph6o2gv9Hh 1237297178 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EF73539B8; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:38 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090317 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <20090317084352.GL18475@coredump.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 17.03.2009 09:43: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:56:12PM +1100, Kris Shannon wrote: > >> I was rather surprised to see my name on that list. A quick git log >> showed my one contribution to git-parse-remote way pack in >> August 2005. >> >> I'd forgotten about that and was feeling all warm and fuzzy until I did: >> git log -- git-parse-remote >> >> and saw that it was deleted a week later :( > > Heh. The current list just counts commits, which is nice and fast. But > one could also "git blame" all of the content from master and credit > people based either on: > > - number of surviving lines in the current codebase (which obviously > would give very rankings for people, as the number of lines added > in a commit is not constant) > > - number of commits which have surviving lines > > Doing such a calculation would be pretty slow, though, I imagine. And it > would of course remove you from the list. :) > > -Peff Maybe we can forge a statement by Canonical, claiming they were among the top contributors to git? Then GKH would do all the statistics for us ;) Michael