Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history

[David Kastrup]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:

> 1.  Attribution to "Jan D. <address@hidden>" vs. 
> "Jan Djärv <address@hidden>"
>
> 2. Attribution to "Richard Stallman" vs. "Richard M. Stallman".  

[...]

> The reason I care about coalescing such cases is because I think it
> helps everybody if (for example) "Jan Djärv" is a reliable single
> identity for purposes of reputation measures, whether informal or
> formalized via something like Ohloh Kudos rank.

Git uses .mailmap in the top directory to establish reliable single
identities for purposes of reputation measures like "git shortlog".

Since name and mail address changes will continue to occur during
ongoing development, it is utterly pointless to "fix" that in the
history.

-- 
David Kastrup