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

[Duncan Roe]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 06:23:32AM -0400, B. Watson wrote:
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> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, j+sbo-users at maschinengott.de wrote:
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> > 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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I wonder if it would be worthwhile for someone to request a git enhancement
to have .mailmap treated similarly to .gitignore?

Who's name from the SBo list would carry most weight? (if anyone)

Perhaps others might like to suggest how we can make a case for the enhancement.

Cheers ... Duncan.