That's incorrect. Those statistics include all the MERGE commits from libav into...

paulmd · on July 31, 2015

No, those statistics exclude merge commits . Here's the command that generated those outputs [1]:

  git shortlog -ns --no-merges v11..HEAD | head -n15

  git shortlog -ns --no-merges n2.4..HEAD | head -n15

[1] http://marker.to/smY3KT

Michael Niedermayer is an EXTREMELY prolific dev who has been banging out FFMPEG code for more than a decade. It's by no means a one-man show, many other devs make large and valuable contributions - but in relative terms Niedermayer absolutely dominates FFMPEG, both in terms of personality and code output.

Manozco · on July 31, 2015

This remove only merge commits, but the commits themself are from libav

moomin · on July 31, 2015

But they'll have the correct author against them, no?