From: Michael J Gruber Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:36:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] .mailmap: Entries for Alex Bennée, Deskin Miller, Vitaly "_Vi" Shukela Message-ID: <4BA620CD.3060101@drmicha.warpmail.net> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre venit, vidit, dixit 20.03.2010 19:10: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Michael J Gruber 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