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No kidding. GitHub absolutely exploded the number of contributors to Rails (at least, judging by this visualization).

• kingkilr 16y ago
  My instinct is that it's just increasing the number of attributed commits. Before Github the committer was always whichever user actually committed it, here the committer is the author.
  • jrockway 16y ago
    Why? Git logs both author and committer. When you apply patches from the fork queue, the author is the original author and you are the committer. So any stats that look at committer would be ... wrong, github or not.
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    • kingkilr 16y ago
      Right github would record the author as being the person. SVN has no conception of an author/committer distinction.
      • jrockway 16y ago
        Oh right, Rails was originally SVN. I wiped the SVN era from my memories as a way of coping with the pain it caused me.
• axod 16y ago
  The question though is, is that necessarily always a good thing? Do more chefs mean better meals?