On 28/12/2019 14:54, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 01:05:13PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Dec 2019, Segher Boessenkool wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 07:47:02PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: >>>> 1 Author: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel,crashing.org> >>>> * 730 Author: Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> >>>> 2 Author: Segher Boesssenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> >>> >>> The first and third are only in changelogs. The second even happened >>> only once, afaics? >>> >>> These errors only happen in the reposurgeon conversion. >> >> This is about extracting attributions from changelogs when unambiguous >> there, and then correcting mistakes or otherwise making minor variants >> more uniform. > > Yes, and I'm saying you probably shouldn't do that.
Why, for heavens sake? Even Maxim's conversion is doing this. > > Note that these errors did not exist in the changelog in the commit > message, for example. Yes, they did. Or at least, they did at the time of the original commit. > > Since people very often typo their own name (as the evidence shows), the > heuristic for deriving it should be robust against that. > And the statistics show that it's not hard to identify the odd cases and fix them up. Only committers with just a single commits are really hard to spot since we don't have data to compare against other entries. R.
