[darcs-users] [issue1668] "darcs show authors" should consider foo at example.com and Name <foo at example.com> equivalent

[Robin Green]

At Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:30:49 +0000,
Eric Kow wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:24:21 +0000, Robin Green wrote:
> > Robin Green <greenrd at greenrd.org> added the comment:
> > 
> > No, I hadn't seen that - thanks. However, this would make maintaining the
> > .authorspellings file easier.
> > 
> > Note that people could still share the same email address and be
> > distinguishable authors, by both prepending their names to their shared email
> > address.
> 
> Could you clarify about this?  What happens if we see just the naked
> email address?

You mean, if we see all three:

foo at example.com
Name One <foo at example.com>
Name Two <foo at example.com>

Ah yes, in that case it might be someone who has changed their name,
so we shouldn't do *any* automatic combining at all. Exactly the same
as if we just see:

Name One <foo at example.com>
Name Two <foo at example.com>

So I see this as pretty conservative.
-- 
Robin