On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:42 AM Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> 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:

right, I did not quite expect this patch to be applied, though it looked
like such a sweet shortcut.

I might just email all of them and ask for them to update
their .mailmap entries.

Thanks,
Stefan

>     Subject: .mailmap: unify the same Ben Peart

cc'd Ben, so we could start here with a patch. :)

>     These multiple author identities in our history are actually the
>     same person.  Map them to the latest address.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
>     Acked-by: Ben Peart <ben.pe...@microsoft.com>
>     ---
>
>     diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
>     index ff96ef7401f..2607846582a 100644
>     --- a/.mailmap
>     +++ b/.mailmap
>     @@ -5,54 +5,86 @@
>      Amos Waterland <a...@debian.org> <a...@us.ibm.com>
>      Ben Walton <bdwal...@gmail.com> <bwal...@artsci.utoronto.ca>
>      Benoit Sigoure <tsuna...@gmail.com> <ts...@lrde.epita.fr>
>     +Ben Peart <ben.pe...@microsoft.com> Ben Peart <benpe...@microsoft.com>
>     +Ben Peart <ben.pe...@microsoft.com> Ben Peart <peart...@gmail.com>
>      Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> <be...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca>
>      Brandon Casey <draf...@gmail.com> <ca...@nrlssc.navy.mil>
>
> 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".

ok, I'll think how I can help but not write the code.

Thanks,
Stefan

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