On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 5:26 AM brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2023-10-16 at 14:10:01, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > > Dear Git Mailing List, > > > > I am a developer currently working on a project and I wanted to > > establish statistics for each team member's contribution to a specific > > branch. > > > > Say, for a user "JianboLin", I am currently using the following method: > > > > $ git clone https://github.com/OrderN/CONQUEST-release.git > > $ cd CONQUEST-release > > $ git log --author="JianboLin" --stat --summary origin/f-mlff | awk > > 'NF ==4 && $2 =="|" && $3 ~/[0-9]+/ && $4 ~/[+-]+|[+]+|[-]+/ {s+=$3} > > END {print s}' > > > > Using the above command, I am able to calculate the number of lines > > contributed by a specific author on a specific branch, which allows me > > to quantify the contribution to a branch by each team member. > > > > However, I would like to know if a more efficient or accurate method > > exists to carry out this task. Are there any other parameters, > > commands, or aspects I need to consider to get a more comprehensive > > measure of contribution? > > Can you maybe explain what you want to measure and what your goal is in > doing so? > > The problem is that lines of code isn't really that useful as a measure > of contribution value or developer productivity, which are the reasons > people typically measure that metric. For example, with three lines, a > colleague fixed a persistently difficult-to-reproduce problem which had > been affecting many of our largest customers. That was a very valuable > contribution, but not very large. I've made similar kinds of changes > myself, both at work and in open source projects. > > Certainly you can compute the number of lines of code changed by a > developer, but that is not typically a very useful metric, since it > doesn't lead you to any interesting conclusions about the benefits or > value of the contributions or developer in question. However, perhaps > you have a different goal in mind, and if you can explain what that is, > we may be able to help you find a better way of doing it. I want to calculate a certain developer's contribution based on different standards of code line count and the importance of the code. > -- > brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) > Toronto, Ontario, CA Regards, Zhao
