Re: [PATCH] .mailmap: Entries for Alex Bennée, Deskin Miller, Vitaly "_Vi" Shukela

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mar 21, 2010, 13:36 UTC
Message-ID: <4BA620CD.3060101@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003201405100.31128@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre venit, vidit, dixit 20.03.2010 19:10:

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> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>>
>>> With the current .mailmap, git shortlog shows the following for these:
>>
>> Thanks for doing the gruntwork; very much appreciated.
>>
>> I'll backburner this and wait until the people who are described by these
>> entries say they want these entries in the .mailmap file.  If they do not
>> like the variant that your patch suggested, and if they care, then we will
>> get updates that should be applied.  Otherwise they themselves don't care,
>> so why should we ;-)?
> 
> I think at least one person (Michael) cared, so if the people described 
> by those entries don't provide feedback then that means they don't care 
> and you shouldn't wait after them to apply the patch including those 
> entries.

Maybe I should have cc'ed Vitaly, the others are straight typo fixes. (One may even argue that Vitaly's change is, too.) Smothering on the backburner for a while, is fine, though ;)

I think for git.git it's simple enough to have "consistent" authorship information, partly due to the scale, partly due to the fact that by definition, submitters have a certain affluence with Git...

Also, if used without "-e", shortlog coalesces authors by full name. I reckon this is the most common way it is used, and it's the mode for which I provided cleanup.

If you distinguish by e-mail (-e) then there are many obvious multiple entries, but it's not up to me to decide which is the main e-mail address. One could take the latest one used, but some people distinguish between work for hire (maybe for several employers) and private submissions.

Michael