Thanks for this Sam.I would like to see this added to the main Gentoo repo but also urge maintainers of other active Gentoo repos to add it to theirs, portage(!), kde & lisp overlay, soko, etc.
For a quick reference here is the Exherbo's .mailmap file: https://gitlab.exherbo.org/exherbo/arbor/-/blob/master/.mailmap?ref_type=heads
W dniu 13.02.2024 o 09:39, Sam James pisze:
Hi, We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git. There's a few reasons: * We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions. For example, it'd be nice if s...@cmpct.info was mapped correctly into s...@gentoo.org when doing git blame. We know s...@cmpct.info and s...@gentoo.org are the same person, it feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it. * It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute under a "work context" too). * It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name and vice-versa over the years). I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it. thanks, sam
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