Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:18:30 -0600 | From | Eli Carter <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] BK->CVS (real time mirror) |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:46:58PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >>It seems that some things that should have been attributed to me (or others) >>are listed as from torvalds too. >> >>Example: drivers/char/tty_io.c >> >>revision 1.59 >>date: 2003/03/04 02:13:05; author: torvalds; state: Exp; lines: +4 -6 >>small tty irq race fix >> >>(Logical change 1.8144) > > > Yeah, I'm almost there, I'm pretty sure that what is happening is that > the user name is being picked up from the changeset which is current in > the path. We extract the user name and put it in the comments but I > don't see where we set $LOGNAME before doing the ci. > > So here's a question. Suppose we have a series of deltas being clumped > together in a file. All made by different people. Whose name wins? > My gut is to sort them, run them through uniq -c, and take the top one. > The other idea is to count up lines inserted/deleted over each delta > and take the user who has done the most work. > > Thoughts?
Another option: Choose the name that _removed_ the most lines.
Reward the desired behaviour. ;)
Wha? Right, back to work.
Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------
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