Re: [PATCH] (experimental) per-topic shortlog.

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:43:49PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

BTW merge-recursive is a perfect example why this approach will break 
down: most of the rewrite in C took place in a private repository with 
quite some commits. This does not show in the git repository.

I fully expect the linux repository to behave similarly, since most of the 
features are cooked elsewhere, and not all of them are pulled, but some 
are applied (i.e. they appear out of nowhere from the repository's 
viewpoint).

Yes, I think this would be more useful in concert with some sort of
grouping. If we can make a group of commits related to merge-recursive,
and score them as a single item, then they can be compared to other
groups (which may consist of a single commit or several).