Re: [PATCH] docs: suggest "Helped-by" rather than "Thanks-to"

From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Date: Jun 6, 2017, 12:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20170606125743.GE25777@dinwoodie.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYZ2yTHxxRUjFZpFWsOWwmh6RBXRd0_a1K9kMTo4exD6A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 11:42:31AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> So I was wondering if there is a command that shows all trailers?
> Similar to a "shortlog -sne" I would want to have a list of all trailers.
> This is because there might be an even more popular trailer than
> "Helped-by", but we would not know when using the hack above.
> 
> While I do not think so, it would sure be interesting to have a list
> of all these trailers available.

I just did a quick search with the following knocked-together command:

    git log --remotes --format=format:%B | sed -rn 's/^([A-Za-z0-9-]+): .* <.*@.*>.*/\1/p' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

The top 10 such tags according to this (which is coincidentally the same list as the list of all tags used more than 100 times), with frequencies, are:

  61535 Signed-off-by
   1641 Acked-by
    984 Reviewed-by
    673 Helped-by
    497 Reported-by
    180 Cc
    174 Suggested-by
    159 Tested-by
    158 Mentored-by
    128 Noticed-by

As you might expect, there are a number of entertaining ones that have only been used once or twice, such as "Looks-fine-to-me-by", "Worriedly-Acked-by", "More-Spots-Found-By", "Looks-right-to-me-by", "Hopefully-signed-off-by"...