How many authors have their contributions in #curl product source code? How many have had their previous work completely removed. Over time.

The first #curl release with code present authored by 200 persons was done in 2015-04-22. In that release, we had already removed all traces of contributions from 20 authors.

In the latest release, 604 authors' code is still present. 171 authors' work have been replaced.

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Just because a person no longer has any lines attributed to them in `git blame` doesn't mean none of their code remains. They could have had their contributed lines simply changed by something like a refactor that renames a variable or adds another argument to a function.

Of course, any metric isn't going to be perfect, doing it via `git blame` is probably the best you can reasonably do, but worth keeping in mind even that users who don't show up that way may still be authors.

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