From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:40:04 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87zjlosz3v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> <87vbwdk0ii.fsf@tao.kanis.fr> <53028359.2000000@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392705628 13996 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2014 06:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 06:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 18 07:40:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFeM2-0002cp-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFeM2-0000SB-EI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:40:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFeLu-0000S3-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:40:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFeLo-0004X3-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:40:22 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42905) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFeLo-0004W6-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFeLm-0002BE-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:40:14 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f44986.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.73.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:40:14 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f44986.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:40:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f44986.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZWeL4SXFDDeeK7CgM+UDeza0GpE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169735 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > While we're on the topic of normalization, is it the intent to > normalize spelling of author and committer names in the repository? > E.g., replace "François_Pinard" with "François Pinard" (no > underscore)? Or replace "Richard M. Stallman" and "Richard M > Stallman" with "Richard Stallman"? How about email addresses? Perhaps > you've already addressed this point but if so I'm afraid I forgot what > you wrote. Normalization of names and mail addresses is done by putting all respective mail addresses with proper names into a .mailmap file in the top directory of the repository. Git will consult this file for his various operations requiring unification of names, like git shortlog. -- David Kastrup