Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > >   > What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
  > >   > that was deleted?
  > > 
  > > In this case, there is no need for this contributor to submit papers.

  > Which means "git annotate" actually _is_ the right way, at least part
  > of it.  The question is where to start and how to converge between
  > these two.

In the case where someone's past contribution was all deleed, `git
annotate' would show a sign of that.  But its results can be misleading
in some other cases.

Consider another case: someone did minor edits on all the lines of that
past contribution.  In that case, none of the contributed lines
would survive unchnged, but most of the material of the contribution
would remain.

Thus, one you see that someone made enough contribution to matter,
you need to check the code to see if that contribution is still present
in modified form.
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