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Re: [PATCH v1] Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2017, 17:59 UTC
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Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> writes:
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> Am 15.06.2017 um 18:43 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> Another thing that may regress that you did not mention is that we
>> would lose a convenient way to _count_ proposed changes coming via
>> submitGit (i.e. you can simply go to the pull-request page), so that
>> the number can be compared with the number of proposed changes
>> directly made on the mailing list, which would be a good way to
>> gauge how submitGit service is helping our community.  But even for
>> that, you'd need to go to the list to find the denominator
>> (i.e. total number of changes proposed), and by the time you do
>> that, counting the numerator (i.e. those come via submitGit) by
>> finding the telltale sign submitGit leaves in its output among these
>> denominator messages should be trivial.
>
> This numbers can be aquired quite easily if submitGit adds a defined
> trailer to the converted commit message like this:
>
> 	Signed-off-by: Foo Bar <foo@bar>
> 	Submit-git-id: url-or-id-of-pr

I do not think you would want the noise _in_ the log message. The "telltale sign" I had in mind was these "signature" lines at the end of the message:

    --
    https://github.com/git/git/pull/538
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  1. Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.comLars Schneider, Jun 9, 2017
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 9, 2017
  3. Lars SchneiderJun 9, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2017
  5. Jonathan NiederJun 9, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2017
  7. Lars SchneiderJun 13, 2017
  8. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  9. Lars SchneiderJun 13, 2017
  10. Philip OakleyJun 10, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2017
  12. Lars SchneiderJun 13, 2017
  13. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 15, 2017
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2017
  15. Andreas HeidukJun 15, 2017
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2017
  17. Lars SchneiderJun 13, 2017

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