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Re: 33 unknowns left
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:06:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: 33 unknowns left
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20150826193120 dot GA4593 at thyrsus dot com> <55DE1670 dot 9090401 at redhat dot com> <20150826200942 dot GA4945 at thyrsus dot com> <alpine dot DEB dot 2 dot 10 dot 1508262013330 dot 6767 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20150826203821 dot GD4945 at thyrsus dot com>
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Although a few accounts may have been deleted on sourceware, and
> > conceivably account names could have been reused after such deletion, it's
> > the parts of the history that come from the gcc2 repository (trunk until
> > the start of EGCS, premerge-fsf-branch after that) where there's a greater
> > risk of conflicts (as in, the two systems had completely separate passwd
> > files).
>
> Noted.
At least one such case confirmed. You'll need to use different author
maps for different sets of commits.
In the gcc2 repository, dje was Doug Evans (this includes commits on
premerge-fsf-branch, not just the early part of trunk). In the repository
that started as the EGCS repository, dje is David Edelsohn.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com