Re: [PATCH] .mailmap: Update mailmap

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 10, 2021, 15:31 UTC
Message-ID: <YTt6RTwJw64tYJRw@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <YTt4RymWg+TOEmUf@tilde.club>

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 03:22:47PM +0000, Gwyneth Morgan wrote:

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> On 2021-09-10 14:02:36+0100, Fangyi Zhou wrote:
> > Similar to a35b13fce0 (Update .mailmap, 2018-11-09).
> > 
> > This patch makes the output of `git shortlog -nse v2.10.0..master`
> > duplicate-free by taking/guessing the current and preferred
> > addresses for authors that appear with more than one address.
> 
> The line for Jessica Clarke should probably just be
> 
> Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
> 
> That works the same and doesn't put a reference to an old name.

Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I kind of wonder if these mass mailmap-cleanup patches are a good idea in general. They are making assumptions about how people want their names to be represented, and whether and how they want any mappings to appear. Maybe that's something we should be leaving to people to propose for their own identities.

Of course people who aren't active in the project anymore may not bother to do the cleanup, and of course messy data makes me sad. But on the whole, I'm not sure it's that big a deal either way.

-Peff