Technical Issue Help : brand new project with huge negative lines of code!

I will probably not be rewriting history for this. I expect the same thing will happen when the forked off lwp, rpc2 and rvm libraries, which are currently independent repositories, are merged back ... [More] into the main source tree which I expect to happen at some future date. There is a fundamental issue with the way additions/deletions are counted. Yes, thousands of lines of code were removed in that branch of the code. But they were indirectly re-added when the branch was merged back because the code survived in the (in this case main-line) branch. [Less]