On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > My view is: contributors are free to specify what name and email address > > they want used, but if they want something other than a single name and > > email address for the whole commit history with a given username, it's the > > contributor's responsibility to come up with lists of commits that use > > each mapping rather than a hypothetical recipe based on examining > > ChangeLogs. > > We'd only need to look at the actual ChangeLogs if the commit message > doesn't include a name and email address. And if we just use the > committer, how do we record the author of a change?
This is still hypothetical, since I haven't seen any scripts posted that would actual implement this, or any resulting mappings of commits, and one wouldn't normally expect a repository conversion to attempt to distinguish committer from author when the source version control system has no such distinction. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
