On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:37:41 +0800
Chao Yu <c...@kernel.org> wrote:

> > IMO, when we use git-blame to find out who is response for specified code, 
> > w/o
> > mailmap we may just found old obsolete email address in the related commit; 
> > even
> > we can search full name for his/her new email address, how can we make sure 
> > they
> > are the same person... so anyway, it can help to find last valid/canonical 
> > email
> > address of someone.  
> 
> Any thoughts?

I'm not fully convinced that we want to maintain a database of every
developer's email history.  But I did merge this patch a few days ago.

Thanks,

jon

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