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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:56:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjk6l8ln.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53397FA9.2070102@cs.ucla.edu

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> 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.

.mailmap can be used for mapping historical mail addresses to a current
identity.

-- 
David Kastrup




  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 14:56 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 [this message]
2014-03-31 16:37   ` Eric Hanchrow
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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