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

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2017, 18:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYZ2yTHxxRUjFZpFWsOWwmh6RBXRd0_a1K9kMTo4exD6A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170605105341.35096-1-adam@dinwoodie.org>

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> wrote:

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> The SubmittingPatches doc suggests adding "tags" in the style of
> "Signed-off-by" to commit messages, and suggests some in common usage.
> However, based on usage on the Git mailing list (and in particular,
> Junio C Hamano's email to René Genz on 23 April), the suggested
> "Thanks-to" is not common usage, and should instead be "Helped-by".
>

One data point is sure nice (and it matches my perception), but can we do data at project scale?

The quickest hack I could come up with is

  $ git log |grep Thanks-to |wc -l
  57
  $ git log |grep Helped-by |wc -l
  676

which reinforces the underlying data.

-- 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.

Thanks, Stefan