Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] Add new git-related helper to contrib
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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- Apr 26, 2013, 23:23 UTC
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Felipe Contreras >> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This script find people that might be interested in a patch, by going >>> back through the history for each single hunk modified, and finding >>> people that reviewed, acknowledge, signed, or authored the code the >>> patch is modifying. >>> >>> It does this by running 'git blame' incrementally on each hunk, and then >>> parsing the commit message. After gathering all the relevant people, it >>> groups them to show what exactly was their role when the participated in >>> the development of the relevant commit, and on how many relevant commits >>> they participated. They are only displayed if they pass a minimum >>> threshold of participation. >> >> Is this patch still not understandable? > > Among the people who review patches here and give usable feedback, > earlier this week Peff said he is away from his mailbox for the rest > of the week, and I am not reviewing any new topics that are not in > 'next', being busy in preparation for -rc0, so I wouldn't be able to > answer that question. > > I do not know about the others, but it is understandable from time > to time there is a period a series is not being reviewed by anybody.
That's fine, I was mostly asking Ramkumar who earlier argued earlier versions of this patch were not understandable.
Cheers.
-- Felipe Contreras