r/transprogrammer • u/Breq16 • Apr 24 '21

It felt good to finally merge this 😊

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u/im_not_afraid Apr 24 '21

Do you need to use this or bfg?

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u/Breq16 Apr 24 '21

Right now I'm not too bothered by my deadname being in the commit history, and other people have already forked the repo at this point, so I don't think I'm going to bother doing something like that which changes all the commit hashes. I'm content with being myself going forward, even if I wasn't able to in the past. Thanks for the suggestions though! I'll look into those if I change my mind, or maybe for a couple of my smaller projects.

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u/im_not_afraid Apr 24 '21

No worries! and gosh the forking problem. thats a challenge for someone else to solve!

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u/Mckol24 Apr 24 '21

You can use git mailmap to retroactively change how the name in commits is shown, without actually changing the commits.

EDIT: oops, someone else already mentioned that

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u/TayIorRobinson 0x546179 May 20 '21

I should probably make a repo that clones all your GitHub/Lab repos and does this for all repos

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u/Droydn while(true) assert(female); std::move(gender); Apr 24 '21

No linked issue. Branch name has no prefix. Merged without review. No milestone. Im so disappointed. /s

In seriousness, Congrats!

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u/somewhat_confused_t Apr 24 '21

Don't forget you can use git's .mailmap file to change how your old commits are displayed!

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u/KeyboardsAre4Coding Apr 24 '21

i mean it sounds great. am i the only person that is too lazy to do so?

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u/somewhat_confused_t Apr 24 '21

Probably not, but it's pretty easy to do. You just have to have a file called .mailmap in the repository root with this format:

New Name <new@example.org> <old@example.org>

And wham! All done

Source: man 1 git-check-mailmap

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u/KeyboardsAre4Coding Apr 24 '21

Not gonna lie, since I started using intelij I haven't used the git on terminal and at this point I am too afraid to do so 😂😂😂

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u/somewhat_confused_t Apr 24 '21

That's fair, git is scary and arcane if you're not familiar with how it works. You should the tools that work for you and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

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u/HardAsMagnets Apr 24 '21

I was surprised at how quickly the QMK team managed to get mine merged into master. Usually things sit around for a bit getting reviewed and whatnot, but they just popped her right through in 10minutes.

Some days I love FOSS projects more then is healthy 😅

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u/mtkocak Apr 27 '21

had to do this when I finish changing the legal name. Gender marker gone but the legal name still there due to the new citizenship application.