Re: emacs.git mirror status

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> I've compared our files and added the 18 name/email pairs from yours that
>> mine lacked.  Mine has 9 that yours lacks,
>
> My author list only contains the actual user names recorded in the
> history.  There are 8 current members at Savannah that never committed
> to CVS, and I doesn't look like the 9 authors from your list have any
> commits either.

Oh yeah.  I just reused a user/email map file from another project.
Having extra pairs is fine.

>> Back when I constructed my username/email list, I chose to use the
>> historical email address from the ChangeLog, when I could find that.
>> It looks like some of the addresses you used are more modern.  I don't
>> care much, either way.
>
> I generally used the newest mail address that I could find in the change
> logs (some are even less modern than yours :-) ).  But I don't care
> much, either.
>
>> And I do recall that "law" was not Jeff -- you could tell from
>> the nearby ChangeLog delta.
>
> The changes from "law" are only on config.sub/config.guess, which were
> symlinked to shared RCS files at this time, so there are no change log
> entries that belong to any of his commits.  I'm pretty sure he is the
> same law who is the current owner of law @fencepost.

I had to look up some using other means (e.g., google),
and maybe that was one of them.  I didn't keep notes.

>> There were a couple of others like that, like maybe mycroft.  Not sure
>> about that one.
>
> "mycroft" is similar, except that there is no such account @fencepost
> any more.  There are more such differences from the
> config.guess/config.sub accounts.
>
> I think you are wrong about uid65624: from looking at the commit log
> style it looks more like André committed on Benjamin's behalf (and I
> don't think Benjamin ever had commit access).

In that case, perhaps I found/used the author name, rather
than the committer name.  IMHO, that's what should be used
in any case, to properly credit the author.  And it's probably ok,
since there were so few changes by that uid.