[FFmpeg-devel] git blame authorship
Vladimir Pantelic
vladoman
Wed Feb 9 11:47:35 CET 2011
Kostya wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:30:37AM +0100, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
>> Fran?ois Revol wrote:
>> >
>> >Le 9 f?vr. 2011 ? 11:24, Felipe Contreras a ?crit :
>> >
>> >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Michael Niedermayer<michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> >>> Hi
>> >>>
>> >>> A quick redone count of lines of authorship of my local tree (interrested
>> >>> parties can redo that with various other trees which should show lower numbers
>> >>> for me)
>> >>>
>> >>> generated with stuff like:
>> >>> for i in *.asm ; do git blame -w -C -M $i ; done>ba
>> >>> and
>> >>> cat ba* | sed 's/[^(]*(\([^2]*\)2.*/\1/;s/ */ /g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>> >>>
>> >>> That attempts to follow whitespace changes, copied and moved files
>> >>
>> >> How convenient to leave .S files out. Here's the numbers with those:
>> >
>> >In any case, this is not authorship since the imported svn only knows about committers.
>>
>> AFAIK, Janne went great length to attribute the author when doing the svn to git
>> conversion, even I appear in git blame and I don't have/had commit rights...
>
> Nobody cares about really old commits. For example look at log messages for my
> first decoders (TSCC, Ultimotion, Indeo 2, JPEG-LS).
I'm not saying that I care, I just explained what was done. How to interpret all
that git blame data and what conclusions to draw from it and whether it "helps"
I do not dare judge upon...
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