Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 1:40 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Brandon Williams wrote: >> >> > Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bwilliams....@gmail.com> >> > --- >> > .mailmap | 1 + >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) >> >> I can confirm that this is indeed the same person. > > What would be more of interest is why we'd be interested in this patch > as there is no commit/patch sent by Brandon with this email in gits history.
Once I "git am" the message that began this thread, there will be a commit under this new ident, so that would be somewhat a moot point. If this were "Jonathan asked Brandon if we want to record an address we can reach him in our .mailmap file and sent a patch to add one", then the story is different, and I tend to agree with you that such a patch is more or less pointless. That's not the purpose of the mailmap file. Not until git-send-email learns to use that file to rewrite To/cc/etc to the "canonical" addresses, anyway ;-) I am not sure if there are people whose "canonical" address to be used as the author is not necessarily the best address they want to get their e-mails at, though. If we can be reasonably sure that the set of such people is empty, then people can take the above mention about send-email as a hint about a low-hanging fruit ;-) Thanks.
