Case-collision fix for contributor email files
Cluster 88257 · contributors. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #100901 on 2 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #100901. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
unresolved. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
These issues and PRs address a problem where contributor email files that differ only by letter case cause filesystem conflicts on case-insensitive systems (e.g., macOS, Windows), dirtying checkouts and preventing the add-contributor script from functioning correctly.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#100901 fix(contributors): add_contributor.py refuses case-colliding email files (salvage #88472, supersedes #100055)
files:
scripts/add_contributor.py,tests/scripts/test_contributor_map.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: done elsewhere 1
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#88273 fix(contributors): case-collision sidecar for emails differing only by letter case · done elsewhere →
#100901
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#88257contributors/emails contains a case-only duplicate that dirties every checkout on case-insensitive filesystems
How this cluster was grouped
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Link evidence (
structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference. -
Pairwise link density
0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36.1.00means every pair is linked.
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Open the LabAt a glance
- Subsystem
- contributors
- Merged PRs
- #100901
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 2 Sep 2026