I think this is taking us into a bad direction.
The thing is, I actually personally tend to _prefer_ the committer name as
being "user@hostname" rather than a "real" email address.
It often tells you something much more.
For example, take a look at the kernel archive, and do
git log --author=torvalds
and notice how the exact author string changes - not just because
"osdl.org" became "linux-foundation.org", but because it ends up encoding
which *machine* I did things on.
For example, while I do almost all my work at any time on my "main"
machine (right now "woody" - not because I'm horny, but because it's an
Intel woodcrest machine, the way my previous main machine was called "g5"
because it was an IBM PowerPC G5 machine), but I sometimes do things on
another machine because that's the machine that showed the problem, or was
the machine that it got tested on (32-bit x86 things: "macmini" or "evo"),
or it was just the laptop I use while travelling ("evo" again).
IOW, I don't think the authorship really even _has_ to be seen as a "real
email" address. The "user@hostname" in many ways is nicer. Sure, when the
patches come in as emails (which ends up being most of them), it obviously
ends up being the email, but I don't think that's at all required.
If you actually want to contact the people involved with a patch, you
should use the "Signed-off-by:" and "Cc:" lines in the commit message, not
necessarily the author thing!
Linus
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