Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote:
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>> I'll sent you the file and you can commit it. Please take full credit for it.
>
> Umm. You do realize that what people complained about was mostly that they
> felt a lot of the entries were totally pointless.
>
> For example, you included names whether they were mistyped or not, and
> claimed that everybody needed to always be in the mailmap if they ever
> made any commit.
>
> So I think 99% of the flames were due to just the patch being stupid.

I had all of the names in the list so that I could regenerate the list
and diff it against the old version to know which new names needed to
be checked. Looking back I could have eliminated the names without
errors and then added a comment to the file as to the last date all of
the names were checked.  But that is less reliable than recording
which were checked. The problem is that if you lose track of what has
been checked, you are forced to recheck everything and it takes a long
time to recheck everything.

I'll send you a copy and you can unstupify it.

>
>                Linus
>



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Jon Smirl
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