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I'd take commit numbers with a grain of salt. Also, I wouldn't call half the commits _mostly_ at all: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/graphs/contributors?from...

By that metric, he did half the work. But it still means he completely disregards the other half.

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56 commits, +273,244, -7,270 LOC

46 commits, +478, -94 LOC

I think it's safe to say it was mostly him.

Don't get fooled by LOCs.

Out of the 273k LOC added, all but 20k, that is 253k are just from the boilerplate auto-generated copy/paste initialization code: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/commit/e9f0df0d5a221b3c7...

Sure he probably did most of the coding, but it's still weird to talk all about I and not mention the other 5 in a single word when they _did_ contribute. Maybe they did testing or other things that are not reflected in LOC, e.g. presentations etc.

I see the point of contention now. Though I don't think we're being fooled by LOC's. You can check the commits from the other contributors, and it's all documentation / adding line breaks. It's unfortunately common at universities for CS projects to be spearheaded by one gungho student with the others only tidying things up for in-class presentations.

It's also not 56 vs 46 commits but 56 vs 63. 46 is the second biggest committee but there are 17 more commits from the other 4 and my initial point was that it was odd for him to not mention the other contributors at all. Even if he did the major part, I would never say I created something if it was a team effort. He lead.

Not just random biloilerplate/framework code either. A framework his dad created. So with this logic his dad did the majority of the project.

His dad? How do you know? One doesn't count React in the LOC so why should one count a boilerplate template? As I said, LOC are not a good proxy.

Update: I see, LightNap is the work of Ed Kaim, surname checks out. https://github.com/SharpLogic/LightNap

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