Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:05:48 -0400 | From | "Jon Smirl" <> | Subject | Re: 463 kernel developers missing! |
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On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> wrote: > On 28/07/08 15:45, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Here's a new .mailmap file for the kernel that cleans up the horrible > > mess of names and email addresses in the log. To use it put it at the > > root of your kernel tree and type 'git shortlog'. Before the clean up > > there were 4,284 developers, after 3,821. There are 5,051 unique > > emails. > > > > The mailmap file contains all email addresses that have been used to > > submit patches to the kernel. Don't freak out about your email address > > being in the file, if it is in the file it is already in Google since > > the kernel log is already in Google. > > > > Just because anyone can grep the kernel log for email addresses [to send > spam to], doesn't mean that you need to do it for them.
You need to be in the file since you have submitted patches using three aliases.
> Please read git-shortlog(1) and then remove me from this file because it > won't change anything. > > -- > Simon Arlott >
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com
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