On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> I had all of the names in the list so that I could regenerate the list
> and diff it against the old version to know which new names needed to
> be checked. Looking back I could have eliminated the names without
> errors and then added a comment to the file as to the last date all of
> the names were checked. But that is less reliable than recording
> which were checked. The problem is that if you lose track of what has
> been checked, you are forced to recheck everything and it takes a long
> time to recheck everything.
The part you keep missing is that NOBODY CARES!
For example, I exist in the current git kernel tree with 11 different
names for just the authorship information:
32 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxx
1522 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx
4194 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
7 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
8 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxx
166 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
4 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(none)
1 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
1606 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
174 Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(that's counts, in case you care). And then if you check signed-off lines,
you'll find some _additional_ oddities where things just got misspelled,
like
Linus Torvalds <tovalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@akpm@linux-foundation.org>
where in one case there's a missing 'r', and in the other it's some odd
perverse incestuous relationship between me and Andrew (in reality, it's
me doing a stupid "search-and-replace" on the emails, adding my own
sign-off to Andrew's and that got a bit too much copy-paste issues)
There's a few other mistakes like that in the sign-offs.
Does anybody care? Certainly not I. There is absolutely zero reason to
worry about it. I used to find it convenient to see what machines I had
worked on, so I actually included that. And one of them was clearly
mis-configured, or git did something wrong when the hostname was already
in FQDN format. Whatever.
There is no real _value_ in making a .mailcap for each such buggy entry is
what I'm trying to tell you. Those things are maybe used for statistics.
On the whole, they are correct.
Linus
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