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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Aug 2018 11:57:48 -0700
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Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl and change of email
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:53 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:36:23AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > It seems that get_maintainer.pl will make recommendations based on
> > commit history to a file, but over time, people change emails that
> > they commit from, then get_maintainer.pl recommends the possibly now
> > invalid email address.
> >
> > I feel like we should have a look up table / file like MAINTAINERS
> > that tracks previous and new email addresses, which get_maintainer.pl
> > would parse, that way we have a record of movement between committer
> > email addresses allowing get_maintainer.pl to make more accurate
> > recommendations.  Thoughts?
>
> .mailmap

Neat, that's a start.  It has a top level comment about being used by
git-shortlog, looks like get_maintainer.pl parses it, and it's a
default on option.  Cool.  Ok, looks like I just need to add someone
to the .mailmap file.  Thanks!

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers