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> the Degree-of-Authorship (DOA) measure to define the authors of each file in a system But in source control, author is typically defined as the first contrib
by dorfsmay 9y ago
> the Degree-of-Authorship (DOA) measure to define the authors of each file in a system
But in source control, author is typically defined as the first contributor to a file, which doesn't always reflect the person who contributed the most content to the file.
- cyphar 9y agoThe paper they linked to has a much better description of how they figure out file authors, and how they avoid issues with one-time contributors.