From: Jon Smirl Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:41:02 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <9e4733911003181641n400704c9r1a0addd6fce6fce0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. > > 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