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

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 8, 2018, 08:25 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D82Geu_qyeJy6Bt18GtQweV-_7oAr9HJVY81BEAxwWNA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5zw48s9q.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 7:09 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> If this were "Jonathan asked Brandon if we want to record an address
> we can reach him in our .mailmap file and sent a patch to add one",

Not sure about Jonathan, but I did.

> then the story is different, and I tend to agree with you that such
> a patch is more or less pointless.  That's not the purpose of the
> mailmap file.

Not directly, but when multiple commands use mailmap to show the canonical mail addresses, then it kinda is. When I look back at an old commit message, I may look up the author name and address, which is mapped.

> Not until git-send-email learns to use that file to rewrite
> To/cc/etc to the "canonical" addresses, anyway ;-)

git-send-email does not have to when I copy/paste the address from git-log anyway.

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> I am not sure if there are people whose "canonical" address to be
> used as the author is not necessarily the best address they want to
> get their e-mails at, though.  If we can be reasonably sure that the
> set of such people is empty, then people can take the above mention
> about send-email as a hint about a low-hanging fruit ;-)
>
> Thanks.
>
>

-- 
Duy