Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> There are multiple author idents who have different email addresses, but
> the same name; assume they are the same person, as the world of open source
> is actually rather small.
Thanks for an interesting experiment. As with 2/3, I suspect that
most of the contents in the patch may be correct, but I'd rather see
these confirmed by those whose names appear in the patch.
IOW, I would not feel comfortable applying a patch, unless it looks
like this (just taking a single person as a random example),
and I do not mind many such individual patches:
Subject: .mailmap: unify the same Ben Peart
These multiple author identities in our history are actually the
same person. Map them to the latest address.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index ff96ef7401f..2607846582a 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -5,54 +5,86 @@
Amos Waterland <apw@xxxxxxxxxx> <apw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ben Walton <bdwalton@xxxxxxxxx> <bwalton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Benoit Sigoure <tsunanet@xxxxxxxxx> <tsuna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Ben Peart <benpeart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Ben Peart <peartben@xxxxxxxxx>
Bernt Hansen <bernt@xxxxxxxxx> <bernt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It may be even better if we can arraange the author of the patch to
be the one who is involved, with "Helped-by: Stefan".
Thanks.
