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Re: Generate 'AUTHORS'
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Generate 'AUTHORS' |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:59:48 +0200 |
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Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès (2015-06-28 23:43 +0300) wrote:
>
>> I think we should consider generating ‘AUTHORS’ upon ‘make dist’
>> eventually, ideally with a list of those who contributed to the last
>> release, and then the list of all those who contributed at all. Any
>> takers? :-)
>
> I can try. IIUC it requires:
>
> - adding a script (let's say "generate-authors.scm") into "build-aux"
> directory that will call an appropriate "git log" command and mess
> with its output; something like this:
>
>
> (use-modules (ice-9 popen)
> (ice-9 rdelim)
> (srfi srfi-1))
>
> (define* (authors #:optional (range "HEAD"))
> "Return a list of authors for commit RANGE."
> (let* ((port (open-pipe* OPEN_READ
> "git" "log" "--format=%aN <%aE>" range))
> (output (read-string port)))
> (close-port port)
> (let ((authors (string-split output #\newline)))
> (delete-duplicates authors))))
>
> ;; (authors "v0.8.2..HEAD")
>
>
> - adding a new target to "Makefile.am" (and to 'dist-hook' there).
>
> Right?
Yes!
Cyril Roelandt <address@hidden> skribis:
> On 06/29/2015 09:26 PM, Alex Kost wrote:
>> However I see an issue with the autogenerated AUTHORS. There will be
>> duplicates since people not always use a single name/e-mail. For
>> example, there are:
>
> The proper way to fix this (and this should probably be done with or
> without this patch) is to use a .mailmap[1] file in our git repo. This
> will allow us to group all commits of an author even if they used
> different emails/name spellings.
Nice, didn’t know that. I guess we should create a .mailmap based on
the current AUTHORS file, which is authoritative. Alex, are you willing
to do that?
Thanks!
Ludo’.