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From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] parsing trailers with shortlog
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:27:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e40593e-b41f-1c01-4005-5aa80d88302d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200925070120.GA3669667@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 9/25/2020 3:01 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> Somebody mentioned at the inclusion summit that it would be nice for
> mentoring/pairing relationships if we could more easily give credit to
> multiple authors of a commit. When people ask about adding multiple
> "author" headers, we usually recommend that they use a "co-authored-by"
> trailer. But you can't convince shortlog to count it for anything. :)

This discussion was worthwhile, and could even have measurable effects
on this community, depending on how Junio creates the list of
contributors for the release notes.

> So this series adds support for counting trailers to shortlog. You can
> do a number of fun things with it, like:
> 
>     # credit reviewers
>     git shortlog -ns --group=trailer:reviewed-by
> 
>     # credit authors and co-authors equally
>     git shortlog -ns --group=author \
>                      --group=trailer:co-authored-by
> 
>     # see who helps whom
>     git shortlog --format="...helped %an on %as" \
>                  --group=trailer:helped-by

I built Git with these patches and played around with these and
other options (such as `--group=author --group=committer`). I
could not find any bugs or other ways to improve these patches.

Thanks,
-Stolee

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-25  7:01 [PATCH 0/8] parsing trailers with shortlog Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident" Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:02 ` [PATCH 2/8] shortlog: refactor committer/author grouping Jeff King
2020-09-25 20:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-09-27  8:03     ` Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:08       ` Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:23         ` Eric Sunshine
2020-09-26 12:31   ` Martin Ågren
2020-09-27  7:59     ` Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:02 ` [PATCH 3/8] trailer: add interface for iterating over commit trailers Jeff King
2020-09-26 12:39   ` Martin Ågren
2020-09-27  8:20     ` Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:03 ` [PATCH 4/8] shortlog: match commit trailers with --group Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 5/8] shortlog: de-duplicate trailer values Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 6/8] shortlog: rename parse_stdin_ident() Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 7/8] shortlog: parse trailer idents Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 8/8] shortlog: allow multiple groups to be specified Jeff King
2020-09-25 20:23   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-09-27  8:06     ` Jeff King
2020-09-26 12:48   ` Martin Ågren
2020-09-27  8:25     ` Jeff King
2020-09-25 14:27 ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2020-09-25 16:57 ` [PATCH 0/8] parsing trailers with shortlog Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:39 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:39   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident" Jeff King
2020-09-27 19:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:39   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] shortlog: add grouping option Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] trailer: add interface for iterating over commit trailers Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] shortlog: match commit trailers with --group Jeff King
2020-09-27 19:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28  3:17       ` Jeff King
2020-09-28 17:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] shortlog: de-duplicate trailer values Jeff King
2020-09-27 20:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28  3:19       ` Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] shortlog: rename parse_stdin_ident() Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] shortlog: parse trailer idents Jeff King
2020-09-27 20:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] shortlog: allow multiple groups to be specified Jeff King
2020-09-27 21:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28  3:25       ` Jeff King
2020-12-28 11:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-04  6:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27 14:38   ` [PATCH v2 0/8] parsing trailers with shortlog Martin Ågren

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