On 5/21/19 8:24 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > On 20/05/2019 23:42, Joseph Myers wrote: > >> I'm not particularly concerned with distinguishing between different names >> and email addresses for an author depending on when or in what capacity >> they contributed a change, or with the cases where a patch was committed >> for someone else and SVN simply doesn't provide a way to distinguish that >> information. However, since some people were concerned with that, and >> since the feature needed for that was implemented (the "changelogs" >> feature in reposurgeon, which will do it as long as a proper ChangeLog >> entry was included in the commit), we may as well use that feature. (The >> author map is still needed for commits without ChangeLog entries.) >> > > For very old commits, back in the GCC 2 days, even the ChangeLogs don't > always show the author. At that time only the committers' name was > used. I'm pretty sure that some of my earliest patches to GCC were > committed by tege and kenner under their names. So we'll never really > be able to fully reconstruct the early history. I'd say we make a reasonable effort here, but the importance of authorship decays rapidly the further back we go. Even when the author (or committer) is still around, they often can't remember the details around commits from that era.
jeff
