Re: git: detect file creator

From: Sim Tov <smntov@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2022, 20:12 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+X_a+w-tDv+Qq7dnjSaFrFpYanwBbx77UGFpDinyeWUYQaB2w@mail.gmail.com>
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> Thank you very much, again, for the very useful suggestions!
>
> > > 1. Do you have an idea how can I list all the files **created** (not
> > > authored / committed) by a user, so I can implement a fair characters
> > > counting?
> >
> > If you want to adapt your current script perhaps --diff-filter helps,
> > but...
>
> I added `--diff-filter=AR` to my original command like this:
>
> git log --use-mailmap --no-merges --diff-filter=AR
> --author="CertainEditor" --name-only --pretty=format:""
>
> and it seems to do the job! May I have missed/messed something here?

Now I see that if one editor renames(/moves) the files created by another editor - the former gets credits on all the characters inside those renamed files. This is bad. And it seemingly stems from the fact that in `--diff-filter=AR` means `A` OR `R`. Is there a way to do `A` OR (`A` AND `R`), meaning if a file was renamed then list it only if he also was created by that same author...