{"thread":{"id":"39332","subject":"Re: [Q] do we have your name correctly?","startedAt":"2015-05-13T22:53:37Z","lastAt":"2015-05-13T22:58:47Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["brian m. carlson","Stefan Beller"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"261209","messageId":"20150513225337.GD425227@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net","threadId":"39332","inReplyTo":"xmqqa8x89k0x.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com","subject":"Re: [Q] do we have your name correctly?","fromName":"brian m. carlson","fromEmail":"sandals@crustytoothpaste.net","sentAt":"2015-05-13T22:53:37Z","receivedAt":"2015-05-13T22:53:37Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sandals@crustytoothpaste.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/497054?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:42:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> Before cdb6b5ac (.mailmap: Combine more (name, email) to individual\n> persons, 2013-08-12), we used to have this entry in .mailmap:\n> \n> Brian M. Carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>\n> \n> but then it was replaced with two entries with that commit to\n> \n> brian m. carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> \\\n> \tBrian M. Carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>\n> brian m. carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> \\\n> \n> \n> (they are two lines; backslashes are just for this e-mail).\n> \n> Because the RHS is searched in the committer and author fields and\n> replaced to the LHS when .mailmap is used, this forces your name\n> to lowercase, which is against the normal convention on this list.\n> \n> I *think* the motivation behind the original .mailmap entry before\n> that commit was to upcase the name so it does not stand out oddly\n> among other peoples' names, and I am suspecting that cdb6b5ac did\n> it in an opposite way by mistake.\n\nI write my name in lower case (and have for some years), and I strongly\nprefer it that way. I'm not completely clear on the format of .mailmap\nfiles, but the way it should appear is \"brian m. carlson\n\". From what I can tell, it looks like\nit's correct already.\n-- \nbrian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US\n+1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only\nOpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187\n"},{"id":"261210","messageId":"CAGZ79kaNXRbJ8DEfFahSSOgpawt1v=v0eWwAEtPQqPaoE1sb5w@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"39332","inReplyTo":"xmqqa8x89k0x.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com","subject":"Re: [Q] do we have your name correctly?","fromName":"Stefan Beller","fromEmail":"sbeller@google.com","sentAt":"2015-05-13T22:58:47Z","receivedAt":"2015-05-13T22:58:47Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"stefanbeller@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/455868?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> Before cdb6b5ac (.mailmap: Combine more (name, email) to individual\n> persons, 2013-08-12), we used to have this entry in .mailmap:\n>\n> Brian M. Carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>\n>\n> but then it was replaced with two entries with that commit to\n>\n> brian m. carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> \\\n> Brian M. Carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>\n> brian m. carlson crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> \\\n> \n>\n> (they are two lines; backslashes are just for this e-mail).\n>\n> Because the RHS is searched in the committer and author fields and\n> replaced to the LHS when .mailmap is used, this forces your name\n> to lowercase, which is against the normal convention on this list.\n>\n> I *think* the motivation behind the original .mailmap entry before\n> that commit was to upcase the name so it does not stand out oddly\n> among other peoples' names, and I am suspecting that cdb6b5ac did\n> it in an opposite way by mistake.\n\nYes, it was a mistake. The motivation was the same as in\n(94b410bba8 2013-07-12 .mailmap: Map email addresses to names)\nwhich did not talk about the whys unfortunately.\n\nThe motivation was to get a clearer picture of the git.git developer\ncommunity. If you ask how many different people actually contributed\nto git.git, it can be easily answered by counting lines in\n\n git shortlog -sne\n\nalso you would find other interesting data in such a shortlog,\nboth person related data (How much did person X contribute? It's hard\nto find&compare that if this person contributed via 5 different\nemail addresses)\n\nAnd other statistics can be learned from a well organized shortlog.\nI was reading about gits development model and how much the\ncommunity is involved compared to other projects (I must have been\nreading The cathedral and the bazaar at the time), so I wanted to find\nout the ratio between core contributors and community (those\nwho just throw a patch or two over the fence and then move on\nwith life). And specially that question got me into organizing the\n.mailmap file in the first place.\n\nI am sorry about the mistakes I made back in the time.\n\nThanks,\nStefan\n\n>\n> Here is a suggested fix; comments?\n>\n> Thanks.\n>\n> .mailmap | 4 ++--\n> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\n>\n> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap\n> index ece2951..8d42ac0 100644\n> --- a/.mailmap\n> +++ b/.mailmap\n> @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Ben Walton \n> Benoit Sigoure \n> Bernt Hansen \n> Brandon Casey \n> -brian m. carlson Brian M. Carlson \n> -brian m. carlson \n> +Brian M. Carlson \n> +Brian M. Carlson \n> Bryan Larsen \n> Bryan Larsen \n> Cheng Renquan \n>\n"}]}