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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: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:20:12 +0000
- Subject: Re: 33 unknowns left
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- References: <20150826193120 dot GA4593 at thyrsus dot com> <55DE1670 dot 9090401 at redhat dot com> <20150826200942 dot GA4945 at thyrsus dot com>
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I'm a little worried about a couple of commits getting misattributed
> because usernames got retired and reused. I now have
>
> ralph = Ralph Loader <ralph@gcc.gnu.org>
>
> but my Google searches suggest that 'ralph' may previously have been
> used by a Ralph Doncaster. Similarly, I now have
r72576, when he added himself to MAINTAINERS, says Ralph Loader
<rcl@ihug.co.nz>. The gcc-cvs mailboxes I'm grepping (starting when I
first subscribed to gcc-cvs by email in August 2000) show only a few
commits from him in the period October to December 2003, do you see
commits in older parts of the history?
> kho = Kim Ho <kho@gcc.gnu.org>
All the commits I see (again, in those gcc-cvs mailboxes) from that
username are from 2004, Kim Ho <kho@redhat.com>.
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).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com