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On 27/10/13 22:13 -0400, Monty Taylor wrote:
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>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.
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>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?
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>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 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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