From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23DAA15808B for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B250E29FC; Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D708E29CE for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:44:31 +0000 (UTC) User-agent: mu4e 1.10.8; emacs 30.0.50 From: Sam James To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Maciej =?utf-8?Q?Bar=C4=87?= , Robin H. Johnson Subject: [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:39:17 +0000 Organization: Gentoo Message-ID: <87frxwpxcm.fsf@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b3fdc583-e54a-4750-a89f-4dc8323efc91 X-Archives-Hash: c5a18559eb584ad7486c9b38d35fba01 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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).=20 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iOUEARYKAI0WIQQlpruI3Zt2TGtVQcJzhAn1IN+RkAUCZcsr6V8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MjVB NkJCODhERDlCNzY0QzZCNTU0MUMyNzM4NDA5RjUyMERGOTE5MA8cc2FtQGdlbnRv by5vcmcACgkQc4QJ9SDfkZABbwD/Tc0DEpyyq72E9sQ5jqXSiz5fmZV6a49gI2Fc bYo3P5YBAItEpyTqrbAcTEElKwiz9rQuSAPFrH/Zt9u8QHzHlOYH =fLf/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--