Thank you very much, again, for the very useful suggestions! > > 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... I added `--diff-filter=AR` to my original command like this: git log --use-mailmap --no-merges --diff-filter=AR --author="CertainEditor" --name-only --pretty=format:"" and it seems to do the job! May I have missed/messed something here? > > 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. 2.1. Will such iteration over history not more time consuming compared to my command? 2.2. Will it not account for useless "diff"s, like add some rubbish, delete that rubbish - and I'll have to pay for it... > > 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. I pay per character, so you probably mean `wc -m`... but what do you mean by changed files? The command above is part of a script I run all the time I want to measure each editors' char count... it might be even without any specific recent changes... > > 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... Good point :-) I will not do it.
