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Re: magit copyright assignments
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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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