On 2019/8/10 0:28, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:37:41 +0800 > Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> IMO, when we use git-blame to find out who is response for specified code, w/o >>> mailmap we may just found old obsolete email address in the related commit; even >>> we can search full name for his/her new email address, how can we make sure they >>> are the same person... so anyway, it can help to find last valid/canonical email >>> address of someone. >> >> Any thoughts? > > I'm not fully convinced that we want to maintain a database of every > developer's email history. But I did merge this patch a few days ago. Thanks for the merging anyway. :) > > Thanks, > > jon > . >
