From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .mailmap: Reintroduce file to fix spelling and encoding issues
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 20:53:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agDTy5k6VTRhtBAS@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260510172205.350001-1-guillem@debian.org>
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Hi Guillem,
On 2026-05-10T19:22:04+0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> From: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
>
> It make sense to use this file to fix spelling and encoding issues that
> otherwise show up when checking the git history. It also makes sense to
> honor name changes for people, to avoid dead naming or similar. As well
> as fixing up local mail addresses that have never been valid.
>
> It makes less sense to remap valid addresses at the time of submission
> that represented a specific hat or organization, where the person is
> no longer affiliated with, because that breaks the historic trail and
> provenance of the changes. And is what require a continuous update
> burden, which seems to have been the reason for the removal with
> commit 2231a1659621d281a2fbb0d75bad5bccce538f96.
Hmmm, to be honest, I don't know what to do with this patch. I might or
might not take it; I'm undecided.
Out of curiosity, what were you looking at, that lead you to writing it?
:)
Have a lovely day!
Alex
> ---
> .mailmap | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 .mailmap
>
> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..d58482666
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/.mailmap
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +# Fix name spelling and encoding issues.
> +Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
> +Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> +André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
> +Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@exherbo.org>
> +Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
> +Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>
> --
> 2.53.0
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-10 17:22 [PATCH] .mailmap: Reintroduce file to fix spelling and encoding issues Guillem Jover
2026-05-10 18:53 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2026-05-10 20:33 ` Guillem Jover
2026-05-10 21:40 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-05-10 21:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
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