Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Here is a contributor statistics.

      release new     this    total   date
      v0.99   47      47      47      2005-07-10

...

      v1.6.5  27      101     693     2009-10-10
      v1.6.6  17      99      710     2009-12-23

During the entire history leading to 1.6.6, 710 authors contributed code
and documentation.  The changes since 1.6.5 were made by 99 authors, among
which 17 are the new contributors to the project.

This is what impresses me most about Git.

Its not our simple on disk format, or our network protocols, or how
well we have been able to avoid breaking things.  Its our community.

Almost 100 people contributed code into the most recent release,
and in just the last 6 months we picked up 44 new contributors.

I wish all open source projects ran this well.

Let's thank and welcome them to the community(sorted LC_ALL=C): Andrew
Myrick, Brian Collins, Carlos R. Mafra, Dan Zwell, Erick Mattos, Gisle
Aas, Guillermo S. Romero, Jean Privat, Jimmy Angelakos, Jindrich
Makovicka, Mizar, Nasser Grainawi, Pauli Virtanen, Raman Gupta, Robert
Zeh, Tim Henigan, and Vietor Liu.

Welcome!  But more importantly, thank you for making Git better!

:-)

-- 
Shawn.