Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Mathias Dahl]

Actually, it's only the lines that remain in the end result
that matter.  Usually it's pretty much the same as the sum of the lines
of all commits, but sometimes it's less because some of that code was
later removed/replaced.

For those who have not had a look at the source of this is yet, here it is:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant