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[GitHub] [beam] kennknowles edited a comment on pull request #11886: [BEAM-8647] delete .mailmap

kennknowles edited a comment on pull request #11886:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/11886#issuecomment-649105139


   FWIW I am not sure everyone on this PR is familiar with the file. It is a config file to help git pretty print the log.
   
   See the "List Of Contributors" on https://beam.apache.org/blog/beam-2.22.0/. Without this file, the list will have duplicate entries like `Kenneth Knowles <ke...@apache.org>` and `Kenn Knowles <kl...@google.com>` and possibly some that are just `klk@google.com` etc. The file is a hint to git to de-dupe these when printing the log.
   
   If anything, using GitHub APIs is worse, because it associates actual registered accounts that are connected to other information. All this file does is associate strings that already exist in the log. But, as noted, that information is also all public.


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