From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:37:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHZoxq8PtsQJaiHYug83vsR3xjYQAvYver7GKnku=G6rd2EgTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53397FA9.2070102@cs.ucla.edu>
What Paul said. Eric's own rule of thumb was that the result of the
conversion should look as if git had been in use the entire time; that
would imply that the "name at the time of contribution" would have
been recorded.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>>
>> what do we consider most useful in the event of
>> a personal name change: name at time of contribution or most
>> recent name?
>
>
> Name at time of contribution, though it's not a big deal.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-31 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-31 14:39 Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 14:46 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-31 14:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-31 16:37 ` Eric Hanchrow [this message]
2014-03-31 18:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 18:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-31 19:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 20:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-31 20:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 20:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-31 20:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 22:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-04-01 2:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 19:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-01 3:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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