From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106DA7D90F for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 13:28:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731899AbfHBN2D (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:28:03 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:49532 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2390660AbfHBN02 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:26:28 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4C9687DA; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 13:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 07:26:26 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Chao Yu Cc: , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim Message-ID: <20190802072626.405246e3@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20190802012135.31419-1-yuchao0@huawei.com> References: <20190802012135.31419-1-yuchao0@huawei.com> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:21:35 +0800 Chao Yu wrote: > Add entry to connect all Jaegeuk's email addresses. > > Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim > Signed-off-by: Chao Yu > --- > .mailmap | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap > index 477debe3d960..70d41c86e644 100644 > --- a/.mailmap > +++ b/.mailmap > @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ Henrik Kretzschmar > Henrik Rydberg > Herbert Xu > Jacob Shin > +Jaegeuk Kim > +Jaegeuk Kim > +Jaegeuk Kim So as I understand it, the mailmap file is there mostly to ensure that a person's changesets are properly collected in 'git shortlog' and such. As documented on the man page, it is used when a person's name is spelled differently at different times. That doesn't appear to be the case here, and shortlog output is correct already. Given that, do we *really* need to maintain a collection of old email addresses in the mailmap file? What is the benefit of that? Thanks, jon