On 2015-09-18, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most people don't write AUTHORS blocks, and don't update them if they
> change anything. And why? Because its an annoying manual duplication of
> what git does automatically, of course.
That's simply not true.
Sure, git blame is able ignore whitespace. But still it would not be
able to determine if you did a substantial change in code or if you just
mechanically changed, say, function names from the API of an old third
party package to the API of the new package version.
Or shortly, git isn't able to recognise semantics.
The AUTHORS block does not just list the names of people who did
something (that's what git blame can tell), but it also is supposed to
imply that the contribution was "substantial", and actually it is also
supposed to say *who* did *what* ("what" meaning the purpose/intention
of the change). That's semantic information that a script will surely
miss.
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