Re: [PATCH] .mailmap: Entries for Alex Bennée, Deskin Miller, Vitaly "_Vi" Shukela

Nicolas Pitre venit, vidit, dixit 20.03.2010 19:10:

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

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With the current .mailmap, git shortlog shows the following for these:

Thanks for doing the gruntwork; very much appreciated.

I'll backburner this and wait until the people who are described by these
entries say they want these entries in the .mailmap file.  If they do not
like the variant that your patch suggested, and if they care, then we will
get updates that should be applied.  Otherwise they themselves don't care,
so why should we ;-)?

I think at least one person (Michael) cared, so if the people described 
by those entries don't provide feedback then that means they don't care 
and you shouldn't wait after them to apply the patch including those 
entries.

Maybe I should have cc'ed Vitaly, the others are straight typo fixes.
(One may even argue that Vitaly's change is, too.) Smothering on the
backburner for a while, is fine, though ;)

I think for git.git it's simple enough to have "consistent" authorship
information, partly due to the scale, partly due to the fact that by
definition, submitters have a certain affluence with Git...

Also, if used without "-e", shortlog coalesces authors by full name. I
reckon this is the most common way it is used, and it's the mode for
which I provided cleanup.

If you distinguish by e-mail (-e) then there are many obvious multiple
entries, but it's not up to me to decide which is the main e-mail
address. One could take the latest one used, but some people distinguish
between work for hire (maybe for several employers) and private submissions.

Michael