From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update .mailmap. Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:48:44 +0300 Message-ID: <87a8lwz0o3.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87zitxcqe0.fsf@gmail.com> <20160317130453.GB12587@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54003) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agp90-0007Qk-A2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 03:48:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agp8v-0006ts-Nm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 03:48:26 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::235]:36382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agp8v-0006tm-G7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 03:48:21 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-x235.google.com with SMTP id qe11so28786336lbc.3 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:48:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160317130453.GB12587@solar> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:04:53 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge (2016-03-17 16:04 +0300) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:09:27PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >> As can be seen with "git --no-pager shortlog -nse", we have several >> duplicates. The attached patch should fix those. I'm Cc-ing this >> message to people whose names/emails are touched, so you can check >> whether the proper ones are used. > > We cannot rewrite history on master, right? My duplicates > +Andreas Enge > +Andreas Enge > are clearly just errors when setting up a new git checkout. > Otherwise I think it is good to unify. I'm not going to rewrite history. The purpose of keeping a proper .mailmap is to have a "good" AUTHORS file (without duplicates) which is generated using "git shortlog" (see "build-aux/generate-authors.scm"). -- Alex