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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 27/10/13 22:13 -0400, Monty Taylor wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 10/26/2013 04:38 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>> So nova has a massive .mailmap that maps multiple addresses for one
>>> person together. I'm wondering if a) it's still needed, and b) if it
>>> is, should we push it into all the repositories - e.g. have a single
>>> global copy and an automated job to push updates around.
>>>
>>
>> We do still need it. We also have this info duplicated elsewhere (like
>> stackalytics and gitdm) Perhaps we don't even store it elsewhere in that
>> form, but instead generate it and then ship it around?
>>
>> OR - (this is from IRC conversation) We remove it from the repo
>> altogether since it's mainly for sdist purposes - and instead have infra
>> read in the mailmap info globally, then copy it into the repo before
>> sdist generation. The downside to that is that the AUTHORS file would be
>> weird for people for locally produced tarballs. BUT - I kinda doubt that
>> people who are re-producing tarballs from source themselves care about
>> the AUTHORS file.
>>
>

I like having a local copy of .mailmap so I can do things like git shortlog
work.  +1 to Roberts second option

"we push it into all the repositories - e.g. have a single
global copy and an automated job to push updates around."


>
>
> I don't mind having it around, we could definitely have a global one
> and then projects willing to pull it in could take it from there.


> Cheers,
> FF
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