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Comment by JoshTriplett | Hacker News Reader

Are the commits from libav merged or cherry-picked/rebased? In any case, I would hope the stats were gathered with --no-merges; if not, that would indeed skew the stats.

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While it's true that Michael generates lots of merge commits, if you click the link in LWN article to Andreas Cadhalpun's mail [1], then you can read that following commands were used to generate statisticts:

  Libav:
  $ git shortlog -ns --no-merges v11..HEAD | head -n15
  FFmpeg:
  $ git shortlog -ns --no-merges n2.4..HEAD | head -n15

  [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650830/

There's a merge commit for each commit pulled from libav (and it's frequently not empty, as the codebases have diverged and so conflicts are common).

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