[openstack-dev] [Infra] Remove .mailmap files from OpenStack repos

Julien Danjou julien at danjou.info
Thu Nov 19 16:41:45 UTC 2015


On Thu, Nov 19 2015, Mikhail Fedosin wrote:

> Currently we have .mailmap files in the root of almost all OpenStack repos:
> https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/.mailmap
> https://github.com/openstack/horizon/blob/master/.mailmap
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/.mailmap
> https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/.mailmap
> etc.
>
> But it seems that they're very outdated (last time many of them were
> updated about 2 years ago). So, do we still need these files or it's better
> to remove them?

They are used by git command such as git shortlog. One can update them
if needed, e.g. if it used different email addresses to contribute.

I don't think they are heavily used, but they are no harm and still
contains correct data AFAIK.

-- 
Julien Danjou
;; Free Software hacker
;; https://julien.danjou.info
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