<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">From <a href="https://swift.org/CONTRIBUTORS.txt" class="">https://swift.org/CONTRIBUTORS.txt</a> on the website (which is I presume the one you're referring to):<div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Names below this line are automatically generated from the repository logs. It contains the information about the committer that was publicly present when the commit was made.
</pre><div class="">So the information is periodically regenerated from the git commit data associated with the changes. Since the git commit history is immutable, you can't go back and retroactively replace existing e-mail addresses with other ones, even if that e-mail server is no longer valid.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don't know who is responsible for re-generating that list; but I suspect when it is regenerated, any such local changes are overwritten in any case.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So as soon as you next commit with a new e-mail address, it will be appended to the existing list the next time it's run.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alex</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Jul 2017, at 08:35, swiftlover swiftlover via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote class=""><div class=""> </div><div class="">Each contributor is responsible for adding his or her name to the CONTRIBUTORS.txt file at the project’s root and maintaining the contact information.</div><div class=""> </div></blockquote><div class="">How can I update my email (mail server that I used was shut down)?</div>
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