On Saturday 2008-05-03 21:38, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>So go out and test it. The diffstat and shortlogs are too big to post here 
>(7500+ commits and the compressed full patch is 8.5MB in size), but one 
>interesting tidbit I found was that during this *one* merge window, we had 
>almost 800 different authors.
>Now, some of them will have gotten counted 
>multiple times due to different versions of the same name, and I didn't 
>filter that, but from a quick look, that is been pretty rare.

Just 800. We have already been past that:

git shortlog v2.6.24..v2.6.25-rc1 | grep -Pv '^( |$)' | wc -l
918
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