Re: [PATCH RESEND] Update .mailmap

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2020, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5z9xoyve.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN0heSoa=Y1HMaZD=eQYD8uphrm+VRZe9yD+8voNuWPetHm83w@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

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> (Dropping Jiang Xin's huawei address. It bounces.)
>
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 at 09:00, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 05 2020, Martin Ågren wrote:
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>> > --- a/.mailmap
>> > +++ b/.mailmap
>> > +Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> <schwab@suse.de>
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>> Neither of them are more recent.
>
> Thanks, I'll take that as a Nak and drop your entry from the patch.
>
> Martin

FWIW, I do not know the reason why Andreas said the above, but there are folks who contribute to the same project (not limited to this one) sometimes as an individual and sometimes as an employee of a corporation, and want to differenciate which commit is which by using different author names. So migrating old and defunct addresses to the current and working one may be appreciated by the contributors, but we shouldn't make it a goal to have only one canonical form per one physical person. That won't work.

Thanks.