[Slackbuilds-users] my updates (crawl, kuickshow, moria, tome-ah)

B. Watson urchlay at slackware.uk
Sat Sep 28 10:23:32 UTC 2024



On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, j+sbo-users at maschinengott.de wrote:

> https://ntietz.com/blog/git-mailmap-for-name-changes/

That would made his commit log appear to have to new name for all his
commits, on *his* computer(s)... but it would only work for everyone
else if we all installed his .mailmap file (or, put it in SBo's master
repo).

Actually that might not be a bad idea, have a .mailmap in the
repo that can be used by any maintainer, whenever his name needs
to change. Though, I can see reasons not to do this (more work for
us admins, and it would seem to *encourage* people to change their
maintainer-names at will).

Also, the database backend that drives the website doesn't support
.mailmap, so we could end up with inconsistency between the site and
the git history.

Another alternative would be to rewrite the git history to update the
name (and email, if that changes) on all commits. But that would break
all remote repos/forks, and everyone would be forced to rm -rf and
re-clone, every time this happened. Too much overhead and headache
(can I make up a new word here? Overheadache). We had to deal with
this exactly once in the history of SBo (a file had to be removed from
the repo completely, due to DMCA blather [*]) and it resulted in mass
confusion.

[*] In the interest of full disclosure... it was my fault :(


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