Hello,
I run a book digitizing project and pay people certain rate per 10K
characters for the text files they upload to a git repo. Till now I
was using following command to detect files authored by CertainEditor:
git log --use-mailmap --no-merges --author="CertainEditor"
--name-only --pretty=format:""
Then I would pipe this output in `wc -m` and get amount of characters
authored by CertainEditor and pay him accordingly. Usually editors do
not touch each other's files and everything worked well. However
recently one editor spotted a typo in somebody else's file and
corrected it. This behavior is actually good and I would like to
encourage it. However, now the command above lists the corrected file
also as his, and so he gets paid for all the characters in the file
while he changed only one of them. This, obviously, is not good.
1. Do you have an idea how can I list all the files **created** (not
authored / committed) by a user, so I can implement a fair characters
counting?
2. Maybe some commit hooks can be used that will check whether the
Author of a new commit is different from the previous one and if true
- override it to the previous Author?
3. Those small changes by a non-creator may be left not paid for (as
this action is not so intensive and may be reciprocal), but if you
have a good idea how I can pay for the "diff" the non-creator provides
- it would be nice! Do you think this "diff" should be deducted from
the creator? And if yes - how?
Thank you!
