Re: [PATCH] mailmap: update brandon williams's email address

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 18, 2019, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20190118165754.GA11350@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20181207222225.GC73340@google.com>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 02:22:25PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Stefan Beller wrote:
> 
> > What would be more of interest is why we'd be interested in this patch
> > as there is no commit/patch sent by Brandon with this email in gits history.
> 
> I think there's an implicit assumption in this question that isn't
> spelled out.  Do I understand correctly that you're saying the main
> purpose of .mailmap is to figure out whether two commits are by the
> same author?
> 
> My own uses of .mailmap primarily have a different purpose: to find
> out the preferred contact address for the author of a given commit.

I just had to cc Brandon and manually look up his email address, which made me wonder what ever happened to this patch. :)

FWIW, I also use mailmap to find contact email addresses, with:

  $ git help who
  'who' is aliased to '!sh -c 'git --no-pager log -1 --format="%an <%aE>" --author="$1" -i' -'

So lacking another such registry, I'd like to add my support for using mailmap for this purpose.

-Peff