Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > I'm a little worried about a couple of commits getting misattributed
> > because usernames got retired and reused. I now have
> >
> > ralph = Ralph Loader <ra...@gcc.gnu.org>
> >
> > but my Google searches suggest that 'ralph' may previously have been
> > used by a Ralph Doncaster. Similarly, I now have
>
> r72576, when he added himself to MAINTAINERS, says Ralph Loader
> <r...@ihug.co.nz>. The gcc-cvs mailboxes I'm grepping (starting when I
> first subscribed to gcc-cvs by email in August 2000) show only a few
> commits from him in the period October to December 2003, do you see
> commits in older parts of the history?
Sorry, I can't easily check yet. I need to upgrade my hardware first. :-)
> > kho = Kim Ho <k...@gcc.gnu.org>
>
> All the commits I see (again, in those gcc-cvs mailboxes) from that
> username are from 2004, Kim Ho <k...@redhat.com>.
Yeah, I guess that settles it.
> Although a few accounts may have been deleted on sourceware, and
> conceivably account names could have been reused after such deletion, it's
> the parts of the history that come from the gcc2 repository (trunk until
> the start of EGCS, premerge-fsf-branch after that) where there's a greater
> risk of conflicts (as in, the two systems had completely separate passwd
> files).
Noted.
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