Re: [PATCH] .mailmap: Reintroduce file to fix spelling and encoding issues

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Sun, 10 May 2026 20:53:01 +0200

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Hi Guillem,

On 2026-05-10T19:22:04+0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
> +Américo Wang <[email protected]>
> +André Goddard Rosa <[email protected]>
> +Bryan Østergaard <[email protected]>
> +Nicolas François <[email protected]>
> +Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]>
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 

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