From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:56:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] (experimental) per-topic shortlog. Message-ID: <20061128135614.GA29505@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:43:49PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > BTW merge-recursive is a perfect example why this approach will break > down: most of the rewrite in C took place in a private repository with > quite some commits. This does not show in the git repository. > > I fully expect the linux repository to behave similarly, since most of the > features are cooked elsewhere, and not all of them are pulled, but some > are applied (i.e. they appear out of nowhere from the repository's > viewpoint). Yes, I think this would be more useful in concert with some sort of grouping. If we can make a group of commits related to merge-recursive, and score them as a single item, then they can be compared to other groups (which may consist of a single commit or several).