Re: [PATCH] Update .mailmap.

[Nils Gillmann]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> Nils Gillmann (2016-03-20 15:17 +0300) wrote:
>
>> It's okay for me.
>>
>> I think .mailmap is only for mail, so my old contribution name
>> will only be fixed once someone applies the gnunet.scm patch and
>> others where it might still occur.
>
> You will fix your name in gnunet.scm some day¹, right?  If you are not
> going to modify gnunet.scm, we can fix it right now.

Yes, see also the pending to be retested or whatever by someone
with commit access patch for the gnunet.scm, thread here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg00464.html

> .mailmap is not for mail.  It is used by "git shortlog" (see "man
> git-shortlog"), and as I wrote, we use this output to generate AUTHORS
> file in a release tarball, so keeping this output clean is
> important.

I understood that, my reply was a bit too short to transport that
I did so.

>
> ¹ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-02/msg00506.html


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