linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim

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Message-ID: <20190802072626.405246e3@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 2 Aug 2019 07:26:26 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Cc:     <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <chao@...nel.org>, <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:21:35 +0800
Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com> wrote:

> Add entry to connect all Jaegeuk's email addresses.
> 
> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
> ---
>  .mailmap | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
> index 477debe3d960..70d41c86e644 100644
> --- a/.mailmap
> +++ b/.mailmap
> @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@...htwindheim.de>
>  Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...math.org>
>  Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
>  Jacob Shin <Jacob.Shin@....com>
> +Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org> <jaegeuk@...gle.com>
> +Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org> <jaegeuk@...orola.com>
> +Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org> <jaegeuk.kim@...sung.com>

So as I understand it, the mailmap file is there mostly to ensure that a
person's changesets are properly collected in 'git shortlog' and such.  As
documented on the man page, it is used when a person's name is spelled
differently at different times.

That doesn't appear to be the case here, and shortlog output is correct
already.  Given that, do we *really* need to maintain a collection of old
email addresses in the mailmap file?  What is the benefit of that?

Thanks,

jon