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Re: magit copyright assignments


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: magit copyright assignments
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:25:03 +0300

> From: Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:23:39 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Thanks, but I think "git annotate" or "C-x v g" will be much more
> > useful in this case, since we are only interested in how many lines
> > which are currently in the package a given author is responsible for.
> 
> It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed
> 20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it
> slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git
> annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone
> else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright
> assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code,
> and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I?

What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
that was deleted?

I agree that some forensics and maybe "C-x v h" will be needed, but my
point is that git-commit-metrics is not necessarily the right starting
point, because it could easily show you a very distorted picture.



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