On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:42:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Before cdb6b5ac (.mailmap: Combine more (name, email) to individual > persons, 2013-08-12), we used to have this entry in .mailmap: > > Brian M. Carlson <sandals <at> crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> > > but then it was replaced with two entries with that commit to > > brian m. carlson <sandals <at> crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> \ > Brian M. Carlson <sandals <at> crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> > brian m. carlson <sandals <at> crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> \ > <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (they are two lines; backslashes are just for this e-mail). > > Because the RHS is searched in the committer and author fields and > replaced to the LHS when .mailmap is used, this forces your name > to lowercase, which is against the normal convention on this list. > > I *think* the motivation behind the original .mailmap entry before > that commit was to upcase the name so it does not stand out oddly > among other peoples' names, and I am suspecting that cdb6b5ac did > it in an opposite way by mistake. I write my name in lower case (and have for some years), and I strongly prefer it that way. I'm not completely clear on the format of .mailmap files, but the way it should appear is "brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>". From what I can tell, it looks like it's correct already. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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