On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 10:08 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 1:40 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Brandon Williams wrote: > >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bwilliams.eng@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > --- > >> > .mailmap | 1 + > >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > >> > >> I can confirm that this is indeed the same person. > > > > What would be more of interest is why we'd be interested in this patch > > as there is no commit/patch sent by Brandon with this email in gits history. > > Once I "git am" the message that began this thread, there will be a > commit under this new ident, so that would be somewhat a moot point. > > If this were "Jonathan asked Brandon if we want to record an address > we can reach him in our .mailmap file and sent a patch to add one", > then the story is different, and I tend to agree with you that such > a patch is more or less pointless. That's not the purpose of the > mailmap file. > Turns out this is exactly the reason :) I've had a couple of people reach out to me asking me to do this because CCing my old email bounces and they've wanted my input/comments on something related to work I've done. If that's not the intended purpose then please ignore this patch > Not until git-send-email learns to use that file to rewrite > To/cc/etc to the "canonical" addresses, anyway ;-) > > I am not sure if there are people whose "canonical" address to be > used as the author is not necessarily the best address they want to > get their e-mails at, though. If we can be reasonably sure that the > set of such people is empty, then people can take the above mention > about send-email as a hint about a low-hanging fruit ;-) > > Thanks. > >
