Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>]

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Richard, How does that work exactly? if there's less than 15 lines per
commit is it all fine? Or do you have to actually sum up all the lines of
all commits done by the author to verify if he wrote a non trivial part of
the program and thus the legal paperwork procedure should be triggered?

On Jul 10, 2017 20:33, "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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>   > https://magit.vc/stats/authors.html
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> I will take a look at that page.  Thanks.
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>   > If you are only interested in how many commits each contributor made,
>   > but not how many lines s/he added/removed, then you can also use:
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> What matters for the purpose of legal papers is the amount of code,
> rather than the number of commits.
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