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Your star count learns to name names

Authors can now click the star count on their own commits and see the people behind it, newest first. The list opens in a panel, twenty at a time, with a link to each profile.

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hbenabdallah, who filed the change, pictured in the contributor’s own avatar.

You post a commit, come back after lunch, and the little star beside it reads 30. Click it. A panel headed "Starred by" slides open with avatars, names and handles, the freshest star at the top. Click a person and you land on their profile, the panel closing behind you.

Credit goes to hbenabdallah, who made the count a door. On a commit you wrote, the star badge is now a button. It fetches the first 20 people, newest star first, and "Show more" pulls the next 20. Everyone else keeps the ordinary star button, which stars rather than lists, and anyone who asks for a list on someone else's commit gets a not-found answer.

One catch. The number at the top of the panel counts every star on the commit, but the list drops anyone you have blocked, or who has blocked you. Block one of your 30 stargazers and the panel still says "30 people starred this commit" above 29 rows. The count never subtracts them.