Re: Analysis on who is Jia Tan, and who he could work for, reading xz.git

[Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 () gmail com>]

Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
>
> Thanks to your script, I've found a mistake in my analysis of the
> timestamps.
>   

Interesting.  I am very happy to have helped clear the air.

> The commit dates in +0200 recently seem to be because Jia Tan rebased
> some commits from Lasse, and used --committer-date-is-author-date.
>
>         commit 3007e74ef250f0ce95d97ffbdf2282284f93764d
>         Author:     Lasse Collin <lasse.collin () tukaani org>
>         AuthorDate: Tue Mar 5 23:21:26 2024 +0200
>         Commit:     Lasse Collin <lasse.collin () tukaani org>
>         CommitDate: Tue Mar 5 23:23:16 2024 +0200
>
>         commit 6e97b299f1b22e366ec42ba5dc5b9d0746e87b84
>         Author:     Lasse Collin <lasse.collin () tukaani org>
>         AuthorDate: Tue Mar 5 23:21:26 2024 +0200
>         Commit:     Jia Tan <jiat0218 () gmail com>
>         CommitDate: Tue Mar 5 23:21:26 2024 +0200
>
> $ git describe --all --contains 3007e74ef250f0ce95d97ffbdf2282284f93764d
> master~37
> $ git describe --all --contains 6e97b299f1b22e366ec42ba5dc5b9d0746e87b84
> tags/v5.6.1~9
>
> The other three commits have a similar story.  So it was a red herring.
> Then, all of Jia's actions have consistently been in +0800.
>   

Very interesting---that red herring has gotten quite a bit of press.

> Now I'm using your scripts to collect data from several projects where I
> work, to compare with data points that I know well.

Excellent!  Now we are likely to get somewhere.


-- Jacob