Re: [PATCH v1 00/25] contrib: cleanup

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: May 9, 2014, 17:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CACPiFCLcXOsSG34oBefEN7CPy4AKMAZjf7EA5WmxJG5oUfmepA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <536cfb02d0f1a_ce316372ecce@nysa.notmuch>

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I already explained:
>> That's right, and they are Cc'ed so they can respond.  Some tools have
>> only one commit or two, and in those I didn't even bother Cc'ing
>> anyone.
>
> contrib/persistent-https consist of a *single* commit, I didn't bother
> with those.

!?

That single commit is the "merge" into contrib. It may have had a dev history before.

> And how do you determine the author? We don't have a MAINTAINERS like
> Linux. Is it the first commit?

git blame, aggregate lines against each name?

There was a tool for that discussed a couple years ago, can't remember name. I used it to find tha lines to my name have shrunk in all my years inactive :-/

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