Re: [PATCH] Update James Youngman's email address

[Jim Meyering]

James Youngman wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> * THANKS: Update James Youngman's email address
>> -James Youngman                      address@hidden
>> +James Youngman                      address@hidden
>
> I haven't used that email address at all since about 2000, and I'm
> guessing that whatever that contribution was, it was probably between
> about 1994 and 1997.    The edit in git (4c1158ba) relates to the
> merge into coreutils, do we have any archived repositories of the
> ancestral projects?  I have no recollection at all of making a
> contribution back then (thought the address is of course mine).

I suspect that that old name-address pair corresponds to
these one or both of these changes:

$ cd old && git grep -B6 James.Youngman
sh-utils/ChangeLog-1999-01-31  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
sh-utils/ChangeLog-
sh-utils/ChangeLog-     * doc/sh-utils.texi: Wrap the @top node in @ifnottex 
instead of
sh-utils/ChangeLog-     @ifinfo so `makeinfo --html ...' works.  From Karl 
Berry.
sh-utils/ChangeLog-
sh-utils/ChangeLog-     * src/chroot.c (main): Call chdir ("/") after chroot.
sh-utils/ChangeLog:     Suggestion from James Youngman.
textutils/ChangeLog-    (usage): Update help string.
textutils/ChangeLog-    (main): Handle the special options --pages and 
--columns.
textutils/ChangeLog-
textutils/ChangeLog-1998-08-02  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
textutils/ChangeLog-
textutils/ChangeLog-    * lib/linebuffer.c (readline): Return zero upon error 
as well as upon
textutils/ChangeLog:    end of file.  From James Youngman.

When I merged (in cvs terms) those three packages,
the files with identical names (like THANKS,v) lost history.
I think the one from fileutils kept its history, in this case.
However, I added entries in THANKS merely to map each name-only
reference in the ChangeLog to an email address, so you can find
the actual commits that added your name in the ChangeLog to see
when/why that old address was added.