Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Jan 03 2021, brian m. carlson wrote: > > We just have to worry about cases where you're not all of these people > in one project's commit metadata and/or .mailmap, and thus mailmap rules > would match too generously: > > "brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > "brian m. carlson" <SANDALS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > "BRIAN M. CARLSON" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > "BRIAN M. CARLSON" <SANDALS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Is that really plausible? In any case, neither of these two patches make > reference to us already having changed this in the past in 1.6.2 and & > there being reports on the ML about the bug & us changing it back. See > https://lore.kernel.org/git/f182fb1700e8dea15459fd02ced2a6e5797bec99.1238458535u.git.johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx/ > > Maybe we should still do this, but I think for a v3 it makes sense to > summarize that discussion etc. After reading the old discussion again, I am not sure if this is worth doing. To many people, it is a promise we've made and kept that we treat addresses including the local part case-insensitively when summarising commits by ident strings. I'd really wish that this series were structured to have 5/5 early and 3&4/5 squashed into a single final patch.
