From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13849 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2008 03:12:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 13838 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Mar 2008 03:12:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (HELO rv-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.198.188) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:11:51 +0000 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g11so2410133rvb.56 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.202.12 with SMTP id e12mr661193rvq.273.1206587510825; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ( [216.19.190.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k14sm12659056rvb.6.2008.03.26.20.11.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Official GCC git repository From: Harvey Harrison To: Daniel Berlin Cc: Bernardo Innocenti , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , overseers@gcc.gnu.org, Tobias Grosser , GCC Development , David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <4aca3dc20803261957n59870ef2hbb104851d6eb08c@mail.gmail.com> References: <47D7F8DA.8060703@codewiz.org> <47D9AF18.7090507@codewiz.org> <20080314144142.GC17210@redhat.com> <20080326163011.GA20021@redhat.com> <4aca3dc20803261138s20fb11famceefc20905543ef@mail.gmail.com> <1206560556.27193.136.camel@daneel> <4aca3dc20803261701l78f2fda3jebf517e2e29dd65d@mail.gmail.com> <1206578096.24940.6.camel@brick> <4aca3dc20803261904j395f80e7ye5088c978c2427c3@mail.gmail.com> <1206584079.24940.13.camel@brick> <4aca3dc20803261957n59870ef2hbb104851d6eb08c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:03:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1206587511.24940.18.camel@brick> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00188.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:57 -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > Lots of projects use the Name format, gcc adds that to the > > Changelog and the author is the login name, I was proposing to add > > the Name 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