* Eric S. Raymond: > Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de>: >> Thanks for your offer for working on this. (I actually brought up >> your name at the Cauldron. :) >> >> Can your tools handle changes in preferred email addresses over time? > > It would in theory be possible to do this with multiple applications > of the reposurgeon "authors read" command using different map files > and applied to date-bounded spans of revisions. So, yes, my tools > could handle this case just fine. > > In practice, nobody has ever wanted to actually try this. The > complexity overhead of deciding when an address should change would be > high, and doing so would destroy a useful property these user IDs > normally have, which is to imply a 1-1 map between IDs and committers > (for searchability).
Okay, it's not a big deal for me if my older contributions are attributed to Red Hat. I was just wondering.
