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[gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?
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Sam James
Feb 13, 2024, 3:50:04 AMFeb 13
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Hi,
We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
There's a few reasons:
* We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
For example, it'd be nice if s...@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
into s...@gentoo.org when doing git blame.
We know s...@cmpct.info and s...@gentoo.org are the same person, it
feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.
* It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
under a "work context" too).
* It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
and vice-versa over the years).
I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well
which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.
thanks,
sam
We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
There's a few reasons:
* We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
For example, it'd be nice if s...@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
into s...@gentoo.org when doing git blame.
We know s...@cmpct.info and s...@gentoo.org are the same person, it
feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.
* It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
under a "work context" too).
* It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
and vice-versa over the years).
I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well
which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.
thanks,
sam
Matthias Maier
Feb 13, 2024, 12:00:05 PMFeb 13
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 02:39 CST, Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
>
> There's a few reasons:
> [...]
> Hi,
>
> We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
>
> There's a few reasons:
+1
You can add
* allows to fix up accidental commits with wrong e-mails as well. *cough*
Best,
Matthias
Sam James
Feb 16, 2024, 11:30:04 PMFeb 16
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Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Hi,
>
> We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
Done in aa4b05d520ebfd044d8a852d7d48937ab160f48d.
>
> We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
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