From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 17:59:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <6e0de364-97a4-a2c1-eaea-8e9931cce6b5@gmail.com> Andreas Heiduk writes: > 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 > 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