Thanks for this Sam.
I would like to see this added to the main Gentoo repo but also urge 
maintainers of other active Gentoo repos to add it to theirs, 
portage(!), kde & lisp overlay, soko, etc.

For a quick reference here is the Exherbo's .mailmap file: 
https://gitlab.exherbo.org/exherbo/arbor/-/blob/master/.mailmap?ref_type=heads

W dniu 13.02.2024 o 09:39, Sam James pisze:
> Hi,
> 
> We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
> 
> There's a few reasons:
> * We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
>    For example, it'd be nice if sam@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
>    into sam@gentoo.org when doing git blame.
> 
>    We know sam@cmpct.info and sam@gentoo.org are the same person, it
>    feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.
> 
> * It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
>    anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
>    people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
>    better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
>    happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
>    different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
>    under a "work context" too).
> 
> * It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
>    various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
>    and vice-versa over the years).
> 
> I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
> I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well
> which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.
> 
> thanks,
> sam

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