Re: Contributor Summit planning

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2018, 20:59 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzhxoy88t.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180814144711.GB3441@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> One problem there is that the prefixes are ambiguous (e.g., Jacob Keller
> shares with me, and I think at least one other over the years). You
> could look at the author of the tip commit, but that's not always right
> (and in fact, counting just merged topics misses bug-fixes that get
> applied directly on top of other people's topics).

Yes, a fix by somebody else to a bug that was recently introduced is safest to apply to the original topic and merge down; that way makes it more difficult to merge the original topic to older maintenance track(s) without the fix by mistake. So a "topic" with commits from multiple people is not all that unusual.

Thanks.