From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 01:47:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Add new git-related helper to contrib
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQV4goutofOhHBYtc1SfEChdOwYvXpcv+pxyZd8qVNZdQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1368978823-18247-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> This script find people that might be interested in a patch, by going

s/find/finds/

> 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.
>
> For example:
>
>   % git related 0001-remote-hg-trivial-cleanups.patch
>   Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>   Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>   Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
>   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>
> Thus it can be used for 'git send-email' as a cc-cmd.
>
> There might be some other related functions to this script, not just to
> be used as a cc-cmd.
>
> Comments-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>