Messages in this thread | | | From | Philipp Riemer <> | Date | Wed, 16 May 2012 18:46:20 +0200 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository |
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2012/5/16 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>: > On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 16:25 +0200, Philipp Riemer wrote: >> This leads to the fact that many people have >> typos in there names or use ".local" or ".(none)" email addresses. >> Hence, Git supports .mailmap files to overcome this and correct known >> mistakes. > [] >> But I would say that >> this file is as good as done. > > Why add these entries at all again? Due to the research for my thesis, I tried to find out how many developers are contributing to the Linux Kernel. First I thought that this would be easy since there was already a mailmap file that contained information about ambiguous email addresses. But I discovered pretty fast that there were more names with typos etc. so that I started to add those to the file as well.
> For instance, my name is listed once in your patch. > and I don't see a reason it should be entered at all. Your name appears in the list because I did a search and you are listed with three "different" entries: * Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> * joe@perches.com <joe@perches.com> * Joe Perches <joe@perches.ccom>
Actually, I just realized that I even forgot to add the entry for the ".ccom" and will add it before re-submitting.
> Many developers share a common name and some of > these entries may be not be correct. I will re-check every entry again (based on the type of contribution/ part of interest/ company) before re-submitting.
> Some developers purposefully use multiple email > addresses to allow direct responses to be categorized > on receipt. I must agree that I did not consider this point. I will have a look and might change some entries accordingly.
Thank you very much for your feedback.
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