Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim

[Chao Yu]

On 2019/8/10 0:28, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:37:41 +0800
> Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> IMO, when we use git-blame to find out who is response for specified code, w/o
>>> mailmap we may just found old obsolete email address in the related commit; even
>>> we can search full name for his/her new email address, how can we make sure they
>>> are the same person... so anyway, it can help to find last valid/canonical email
>>> address of someone.  
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> I'm not fully convinced that we want to maintain a database of every
> developer's email history.  But I did merge this patch a few days ago.

Thanks for the merging anyway. :)

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon
> .
>