Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:28:16 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim |
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:37:41 +0800 Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> 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,
jon
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