On Fri, Jul 15 2022, Sim Tov wrote: > 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 It's nice to see that someone still believes in The Mythical Man- Month :) > 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? If you want to adapt your current script perhaps --diff-filter helps, but... > 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? ..it seems you should fundamentally stop using it, and instead iterate over the commits, and pay for a "diff". Then you'd get the original change, as well as the change-on-top. > 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! Just wc -l on the changed files(s) before & after, and pay the abs() difference. > Do you think this "diff" should be deducted from the creator? And if > yes - how? You could walk it back with "git blame" I guess. But you might want to consider the economic & social mis-incentives of lifting money from your co-workers coffers by pointing out a mistake to them...
