From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Philipp Riemer <ruderphilipp@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul Mundt" <lethal@linux-sh.org>, "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>,
"Kuninori Morimoto" <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>,
"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@suse.cz>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Wang Chen" <ellre923@gmail.com>, "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 09:10:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337184643.4818.8.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFU-uVs_Gwacxj74cyekY2gv+zAq+Spba7nfPLdTc_dR3y8CYw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 16:25 +0200, Philipp Riemer wrote:
> This leads to the fact that many people have
> typos in there names or use ".local" or ".(none)" email addresses.
> Hence, Git supports .mailmap files to overcome this and correct known
> mistakes.
[]
> But I would say that
> this file is as good as done.
Why add these entries at all again?
For instance, my name is listed once in your patch.
and I don't see a reason it should be entered at all.
Many developers share a common name and some of
these entries may be not be correct.
Some developers purposefully use multiple email
addresses to allow direct responses to be categorized
on receipt.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-16 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-16 14:25 Philipp Riemer
2012-05-16 14:38 ` Greg KH
2012-05-16 14:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-16 15:01 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-05-16 15:08 ` Greg KH
2012-05-16 15:21 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-05-31 16:08 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-05-31 19:25 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-31 20:15 ` Al Viro
2012-06-01 8:41 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-06-01 11:41 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-01 16:45 ` Al Viro
2012-06-01 15:16 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-06-28 5:21 ` Joe Perches
2012-06-28 9:00 ` Philipp Riemer
[not found] ` <CAD6jFUQAUAqSz3vAmQtvPFBQZC82DJ4dD9TdRs37DHTZjNUuOQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAFU-uVs2i8Sf7CqUvndyo8-TUNH4CYjXzu4KXPhLvLo-JLcuWQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-10 13:39 ` [PATCH] " Philipp Riemer
2012-06-01 7:58 ` [GIT PULL] " Greg KH
2012-06-01 16:22 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-06-01 16:23 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-05-16 16:10 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-05-16 16:46 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-05-16 16:49 ` Josh Boyer
2012-05-16 17:01 ` Philipp Riemer
2012-05-16 17:58 ` Greg KH
2012-05-16 16:52 ` Joe Perches
2012-06-04 6:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-06-04 8:42 ` Philipp Riemer
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