On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:57 -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > Lots of projects use the Name <email> format, gcc adds that to the > > Changelog and the author is the login name, I was proposing to add > > the Name <email> format to the git repo to make things like gitk > > nicer to use. > > There is no singular mapping from login name to author, since we have > all used different email addresses in the changelog at different > times. > Login name has always been correct, and it would be wrong for us to > change history to try to represent our login name as if it has always > had our latest email address. > > I would highly suggest you just use login name as the author.
I was only suggesting it as a nicity, if people are happy with the login name alone, I'd suggest Bernardo just push the repo from infradead over now as that is what is there. Harvey
