Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: change primary address for Derrick Stolee

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:17:19 +0100

On Mon, Feb 14 2022, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>
>
> Stolee transitioned from Microsoft to GitHub in July 2020, but continued
> to use <[email-masked]> because it was a valid address. He also
> used <[email-masked]> to communicate with the mailing list since
> writing plaintext emails is difficult in Outlook. However, recent issues
> with GMail delaying mailing list messages created a need to change his
> primary email address.

Yeah that sucks. You might be interested in the tips I had for working
around it in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/;
and others have suggested subscribing an alias address for the GMail
address.

> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
> index 9c6a446bdfb..07db36a9bb9 100644
> --- a/.mailmap
> +++ b/.mailmap
> @@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ David Reiss <[email-masked]> <dreiss@dreiss-vmware.(none)>
>  David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
>  David Turner <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
>  David Turner <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
> -Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
> -Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]> Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <[email-masked]>
> +Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
> +Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]> Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <[email-masked]>
> +Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>

FWIW I think only the addition of that last line is needed since the
.mailmap syntax supports mapping A->B, followed by B->C.