Messages in this thread | | | From | Junio C Hamano <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] PCI patches for 2.6.16-rc1 | Date | Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:21:38 -0800 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> Btw, Linas - even if you can't fix your broken mail setup, what you _can_ > do is to always make sure that the patches you send out have > > From: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> > > as the first line of the body - then the tools will figure out to use that > instead of the broken mail headers. Ok?
BTW, Linus - even if Linas did you already have commits with broken author information; what you _can_ do is to have the following entry in a .mailmap file in your linux-2.6.git repository, where you run git-shortlog for your next announcement:
$ cat .mailmap Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> ... $
Then the tool will pick up Author: line of the commit (which is {'linas', '<linas@austin.ibm.com>'} pair) and figure out to use the canonical "name" you define there instead of the broken commit headers. OK?
> (This is true in general - so anybody else who knows that they send out > emails from a strange address that they'd rather have show up as their > "real" email address instead in the changelogs can do the same).
(This is also true in general - so any upstream maintainer who ended up with commits that have badly formatted author information in his repository that they'd rather have show up nicer in the changelogs can do the same).
> Linus
Junio ;-).
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