[FFmpeg-devel] git blame authorship

Kostya kostya.shishkov
Wed Feb 9 11:42:36 CET 2011


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).



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