Adam Dinwoodie <a...@dinwoodie.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 11:42:31AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> So I was wondering if there is a command that shows all trailers?
>> Similar to a "shortlog -sne" I would want to have a list of all trailers.
>> This is because there might be an even more popular trailer than
>> "Helped-by", but we would not know when using the hack above.
>> 
>> While I do not think so, it would sure be interesting to have a list
>> of all these trailers available.
>
> I just did a quick search with the following knocked-together command:
>
>     git log --remotes --format=format:%B | sed -rn 's/^([A-Za-z0-9-]+): .* 
> <.*@.*>.*/\1/p' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
>
> The top 10 such tags according to this (which is coincidentally the same
> list as the list of all tags used more than 100 times), with
> frequencies, are:
>
>   61535 Signed-off-by
>    1641 Acked-by
>     984 Reviewed-by
>     673 Helped-by
>     497 Reported-by
>     180 Cc
>     174 Suggested-by
>     159 Tested-by
>     158 Mentored-by
>     128 Noticed-by
>
> As you might expect, there are a number of entertaining ones that have
> only been used once or twice, such as "Looks-fine-to-me-by",
> "Worriedly-Acked-by", "More-Spots-Found-By", "Looks-right-to-me-by",
> "Hopefully-signed-off-by"...

Thanks for an interesting list.  Your replacing (totally
unconventional) Thanks-to with more common Helped-by is certainly an
improvement, but I wonder if we should encourage people to be
"original" in this area by having that "You can also invent"
paragraph in the first place.

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