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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: bwilliamseng@gmail.com, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	bwilliams.eng@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: update brandon williams's email address
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:22:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181207222225.GC73340@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYrgpZDqAhg8c11V_qJTCzzw4-qrVN2z_Y_OAeCbWU6dQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Stefan Beller wrote:

> 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.

I think there's an implicit assumption in this question that isn't
spelled out.  Do I understand correctly that you're saying the main
purpose of .mailmap is to figure out whether two commits are by the
same author?

My own uses of .mailmap primarily have a different purpose: to find
out the preferred contact address for the author of a given commit.

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-07 20:56 [PATCH] mailmap: update brandon williams's email address Brandon Williams
2018-12-07 21:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-12-07 22:11   ` Stefan Beller
2018-12-07 22:22     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2019-01-18 16:57       ` Jeff King
2019-01-18 18:16         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-18 18:38           ` Jeff King
2018-12-08  6:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-08  6:51       ` Brandon Williams
2018-12-10  8:36         ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-08  8:25       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-08 12:18       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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