Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:23:38 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:15 +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > > Why don't you also add an entry in .mailmap as Will did in commit > > c584b1202f2d ("MAINTAINERS: Update my email address to use > > @kernel.org")? > > I considered it but could not understand its purpose... Maybe you > can explain it to me? ;-) (can resend with this change if > needed/desired).
man git-shortlog gives you the gory detail, but its use is to "coalesce together commits by the same person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was spelled differently." The usual way this happens is that people have the name that appears in the From field with and without initials.
James
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