Re: BBDB in the GNU ELPA

[Glenn Morris]

Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> BH> git shortlog -e --summary
>
> BH> should give you a list of all of the contributors on the project.
>
> It does.  But that's not useful when you're trying to find out who wrote
> the last verstion of a specific function or even a single line.  

This information won't be comprehensive, will it, given that the project
is at least 20 years old, so significantly predates git? I woudn't have
thought that you can expect git to reliably reflect the authorship of
changes made when the project was using an older VCS?