Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Tassilo Horn >> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:36:52 +0200 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Back when emacs used CVS, only the actual committers were logged, >> though they probably committed tons of changes others sent them per >> mail but couldn't commit themselves. > > The names of the actual authors of the changes are always stated in > the ChangeLog entries, and always have been. > > So I think the ChangeLog files are a much more accurate source of this > kind of information that the VCS logs, including for this reason: > >> And there are many emacs packages that have their own repositories >> (Org, Gnus, ERC, etc.), and not all of them are synched on a >> per-commit basis with emacs' repository, so parts of their >> contributors are probably not included in the statistics, too.