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=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,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 DFDE97D2F0 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730768AbfHHOh4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2019 10:37:56 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:56054 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728327AbfHHOh4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2019 10:37:56 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.101] (unknown [180.111.132.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F10EB2173E; Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:37:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1565275075; bh=otbC7ZHjlg0OuA+dibKxeYqdWppYhikbhtR5Iw6Pydw=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=iJlaLQ/3qqvhCh/FTvrsprgcpxGbowGXnMel3p1mqee5soCS9adbMxPkP90E94sRD mW4coBP/RGc0xJiLelW+UE6bCgPP5WZWPlqvJf0fTgfdjwgNwqLkLX6lr0x3uhOBhz Tzag9l7EJkUBqFo8GJIqcmlQW8ZnO35PWmb6M3OA= Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim From: Chao Yu To: Jonathan Corbet , Chao Yu Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaegeuk@kernel.org References: <20190802012135.31419-1-yuchao0@huawei.com> <20190802072626.405246e3@lwn.net> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:37:41 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On 2019-8-2 22:23, Chao Yu wrote: > On 2019-8-2 21:26, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> 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? > > IMO, when we use git-blame to find out who is response for specified code, w/o > mailmap we may just found old obsolete email address in the related commit; even > we can search full name for his/her new email address, how can we make sure they > are the same person... so anyway, it can help to find last valid/canonical email > address of someone. Any thoughts? Thanks, > > Thanks, > >> >> Thanks, >> >> jon >>