Remove Author.email field and merge authors by name

[filodej]

For example John Smith <john.smith@example.com> and John Smith <jsmith@example.com> are considered as a single author John Smith regardless of the different email addresses.

As the URL for author details is constructed from Autor.dirname (as opposed to Author.email - see dc4d2a0) the original version does not work properly.

This change is just a workaround and is not intended for a direct merge, I created it just to trigger a discussion.

However, for me personally it feels as a suitable quickfix until the whole issue is properly addressed.

[zzjin]

+1

[tomgi]

Thanks for pointing the problem with author details URL.

I think better solution than removing email field from author would be to:

• save collection of author's emails in author class
• add option in API and CLI to merge authors with specified emails (so they will be considered as a single author)

[filodej]

Hello Tomasz,
Yes, the approach you described is definitely better.
Ideally there could be also an option to merge all authors (to avoid listing the e-mails and still get the behavior I achieved with my hack).
BTW. thank you very much for a great piece of software! The presentation looks so much nicer that with the original gitstats.
Cheers, Filodej.

[miketheman]

Ping for this - CLI-wise, I agree that a toggle to allow the operator to turn off the email behavior is a good idea.
Where did this idea stall?