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Ben Knoble" Cc: Christian Couder , Git , Patrick Steinhardt , Elijah Newren , Jeff King , "brian m . carlson" , Johannes Schindelin , Justin Tobler , Christian Couder Subject: Re: .mailmap etiquette (was "Re: [PATCH 1/7] parse-options: introduce OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP") In-Reply-To: (D. Ben Knoble's message of "Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:14:56 -0400") References: <20260716165517.433849-1-christian.couder@gmail.com> <20260716165517.433849-2-christian.couder@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:31:36 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit "D. Ben Knoble" writes: > Speaking of .mailmap… if I were going to send future patches under a > new email address, would you prefer > > (a) a series with the 1st commit being a .mailmap update (subsequent > commits bearing the new email address, of course, but unrelated to the > .mailmap update) > (b) a one-patch email with a .mailmap update > (c) the same as (b), but only after commits with the new email address > have stabilized in next or master I am not sure what sort of complexity you are anticipating, but having you send (b) and me applying it directly to 'master' would be the simplest approach, wouldn't it? After all, adding a new entry to .mailmap does not invalidate your old identity; it merely links the new one to the same person.