Re: [PATCH 0/2] git checkout: one bugfix and one cosmetic change

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 17.03.2009 09:43:

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:56:12PM +1100, Kris Shannon wrote:

quoted

I was rather surprised to see my name on that list.  A quick git log
showed my one contribution to git-parse-remote way pack in
August 2005.

I'd forgotten about that and was feeling all warm and fuzzy until I did:
git log -- git-parse-remote

and saw that it was deleted a week later :(

Heh. The current list just counts commits, which is nice and fast. But
one could also "git blame" all of the content from master and credit
people based either on:

  - number of surviving lines in the current codebase (which obviously
    would give very rankings for people, as the number of lines added
    in a commit is not constant)

  - number of commits which have surviving lines

Doing such a calculation would be pretty slow, though, I imagine. And it
would of course remove you from the list. :)

-Peff

Maybe we can forge a statement by Canonical, claiming they were among
the top contributors to git? Then GKH would do all the statistics for us ;)

Michael