Re: [PATCH] mailmap: consolidate multiple addresses into one

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2025, 22:52 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <4d47677c-787e-59ca-84f8-5ebf59947b0c@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> Consolidating to a single "forever" address is good.
>> 
>> It is a bit hard for us to convince ourselves that Wincent Colaiuta
>> and Greg Hurrel are the same person, though.  The only way I can
>> think of offhand is to leave this message in the mailing list
>> briefly and see if a different Wincent comes and complains ;-)
>
> I can vouch for Greg, having worked with him during our mutual time at
> GitHub that I greatly enjoyed, and can say with conviction that his GitHub
> handle @wincent corresponds to the name Wincent Colaiuta.

What a coincidence.

I declared "absense of objection is good enough" after waiting for a few weeks, and applied the mailmap change directly to 'master' this morning ;-)

Thanks. It is nice to be supported by a positive confirmation, not just absense of objection ;-)

> I can also guarantee that you will enjoy hearing the story behind it,
> although it might require you to buy Greg/Wincent a beer or two (which I
> guarantee you won't regret, either).