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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
July 2, 2010 12:57
Subject:
Re: backporting into 5.12.2 -- was kill $1 broken
Message ID:
20100702195655.GI31795@plum.flirble.org
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:26:47PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri  2.Jul'10 at 10:43:11 -0400, David Golden wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> > > Where are all those people now, who said that they didn't contribute to the
> > > perl core because it was in Perforce?
> > 
> > If only we could see who the patch authors were prior to git instead
> > of only the committers.  As a proxy, here's the list of people added
> > to AUTHORS since GitLive-blead:
> > 
> 
> I'll note that at least some of those names are due to me spending half
> a week researching pre-git committers we hadn't previously acknowledged.
> (Thanks again to SamV++ for his heroic efforts stitching our pre-history
> back together!)

I could immediately see one, as I know that Alex Gough implemented UNITCHECK,
which was in 5.10.0, which is pre-git. (And he implemented it while in
Antarctica - so, do we have contributions from every continent?)

Nicholas Clark


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