Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756972Ab2EPQKp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 12:10:45 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:37240 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756259Ab2EPQKo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 12:10:44 -0400 Message-ID: <1337184643.4818.8.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository From: Joe Perches To: Philipp Riemer Cc: Paul Mundt , Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= , Kuninori Morimoto , Jiri Kosina , Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , LKML , Wang Chen , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 09:10:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 27 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? For instance, my name is listed once in your patch. and I don't see a reason it should be entered at all. Many developers share a common name and some of these entries may be not be correct. Some developers purposefully use multiple email addresses to allow direct responses to be categorized on receipt. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/