From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:43:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] git checkout: one bugfix and one cosmetic change
Message-ID: <20090317084352.GL18475@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <e51f4f550903162156i64b64900g815ee8317720f1a0@mail.gmail.com>

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