Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 18, 2010, 23:41 UTC
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- <9e4733911003181641n400704c9r1a0addd6fce6fce0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> If anyone is interested I can send them a .mailmap that fixes a lot of >> the problems in the kernel tree. It's two years old so it will need >> updating. > > Please just make a patch with it, and post it to lkml and CC Linus and > Andrew Morton. Repost a month later if no one picked it up.
Been there, done that. 1000 message flame war ensued about privacy concerns over people's email address in the file.
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> > I think that 'git log' should really consider the .mailmap by default. > Otherwise what's the point? The only time when .mailmap should not be > considered is when using --pretty=raw or when explicitly told not to. > > > Nicolas >
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com