Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>> If anyone is interested I can send them a .mailmap that fixes a lot of
>> the problems in the kernel tree. It's two years old so it will need
>> updating.
>
> Please just make a patch with it, and post it to lkml and CC Linus and
> Andrew Morton.  Repost a month later if no one picked it up.

Been there, done that. 1000 message flame war ensued about privacy
concerns over people's email address in the file.

>
> I think that 'git log' should really consider the .mailmap by default.
> Otherwise what's the point?   The only time when .mailmap should not be
> considered is when using --pretty=raw or when explicitly told not to.
>
>
> Nicolas
>



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