Stefan Beller <[email protected]> writes:
> There are multiple author idents who have different email addresses, but
> the same name; assume they are the same person, as the world of open source
> is actually rather small.
Thanks for an interesting experiment. As with 2/3, I suspect that
most of the contents in the patch may be correct, but I'd rather see
these confirmed by those whose names appear in the patch.
IOW, I would not feel comfortable applying a patch, unless it looks
like this (just taking a single person as a random example),
and I do not mind many such individual patches:
Subject: .mailmap: unify the same Ben Peart
These multiple author identities in our history are actually the
same person. Map them to the latest address.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ben Peart <[email protected]>
---
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index ff96ef7401f..2607846582a 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -5,54 +5,86 @@
Amos Waterland <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Ben Walton <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Benoit Sigoure <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
+Ben Peart <[email protected]> Ben Peart <[email protected]>
+Ben Peart <[email protected]> Ben Peart <[email protected]>
Bernt Hansen <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Brandon Casey <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
It may be even better if we can arraange the author of the patch to
be the one who is involved, with "Helped-by: Stefan".
Thanks.
