> Also there's a lot of work in coding a few lines of code that isn't just those lines. You may have taken apart very large systems and grepped huge amounts of logs to understand something, while having written many intermediate versions of a solution, only for you to figure out the problem could be elegantly solved.

If that's the case, then that should be evident in the commit log.

My one commit in the Linux kernel mostly just moves a few assignments / variables around; but the commit message should make it clear the effort that went into it.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...