Re: minor maintenance/doc updates

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Updates attached.
>
>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 13:23, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>  maint: remove superfluous name from THANKS.in
>> One nit: In the commit log for the above, you used two git SHA checksums:
>
> fixed.
>
>> Also, when I run "make THANKS", I see this:
>>  ./thanks-gen: THANKS.in: duplicate name: Ralf Wildenhues
>
> This turned out to be something else: Ralf's name is not in THANKS.in,
> but in the git log, and with different upper/lower case.
> The fifth commit solves this by sorting case-insensitive.

Thank you.
That works fine.
An alternative approach is to map the less common email address
capitalization to the presumably preferred more-common one via the
.mailmap file. That might be better, so that we keep the
THANKS-generating code in Makefile.am the same as in other packages.