Re: coreutils: consolidate the 'THANKS' entries wrt. your email address

[Bernhard Voelker]

[from an off-list discussion]

On 02/12/2015 11:52 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

On 12/02/15 07:44, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

Hi Padraig,

On 02/12/2015 08:21 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

   Jeff Liu <jeff....@oracle.com>   jeff.liu <jeff....@oracle.com>
   Jeff Liu <jeff....@oracle.com>   Jie Liu <jeff....@oracle.com>

I'd go with Jeff Liu

I also wanted to add another line for the last remaining
non-latin1 name:

translit.cc gives "Aleksej Shilin" and there are more google hits
for that name than the Sch variant.

Patch attached, pushing soon.
Thanks!

Have a nice day,
Berny


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From: Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:21:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: enhance '.mailmap' mappings for THANKS generation
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* .mailmap (jeff....@oracle.com): There are 3 different names in the
'git log' output for this email address; choose "Jeff Liu" as canonical
form.
(Алексей Шилин): Convert name to latin1 ("Aleksej Shilin")
to improve the sort order of the generated 'THANKS' file.
---
 .mailmap | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index d23a2c8..c7a18cf 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -34,3 +34,10 @@ Arne Henrik Juul <ar...@imf.unit.no> Arne H. Juul <ar...@solan.unit.no>
 
 # Had email as name.
 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> jida...@jidanni.org <jida...@jidanni.org>
+
+# Consolidate names of same email address.
+Jeff Liu <jeff....@oracle.com> jeff.liu <jeff....@oracle.com>
+Jeff Liu <jeff....@oracle.com> Jie Liu <jeff....@oracle.com>
+
+# Convert to latin1 for a better 'THANKS' sort order.
+Aleksej Shilin <rootl...@mail.ru> Алексей Шилин <rootl...@mail.ru>
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