Re: [PATCH v1] Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com

[Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>]

Am 15.06.2017 um 18:43 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Another thing that may regress that you did not mention is that we
> would lose a convenient way to _count_ proposed changes coming via
> submitGit (i.e. you can simply go to the pull-request page), so that
> the number can be compared with the number of proposed changes
> directly made on the mailing list, which would be a good way to
> gauge how submitGit service is helping our community.  But even for
> that, you'd need to go to the list to find the denominator
> (i.e. total number of changes proposed), and by the time you do
> that, counting the numerator (i.e. those come via submitGit) by
> finding the telltale sign submitGit leaves in its output among these
> denominator messages should be trivial.

This numbers can be aquired quite easily if submitGit adds a defined
trailer to the converted commit message like this:

	Signed-off-by: Foo Bar <foo@bar>
	Submit-git-id: url-or-id-of-pr