Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:45:25 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 463 kernel developers missing! |
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:45:59AM -0400, 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. > > Putting all the email addresses and names into this file allows it to > be used as a basis for future validation. Since I don't know perl, can > someone whip up a patch to checkpatch.pl that validates the emails in > new patches against the ones in mailmap? Then if you aren't in mailmap > part of your commit needs to include a new entry for mailmap. > > Another useful script would take the output of "git log | grep ^Author > | sort -u" and diff the list of email address against the mailmap > file. Any new emails found are new people that need to be added to > mailmap. Only the emails should be checked, not the names. > > Please excuse any errors I made in the clean up process, a large > portion of it was done manually. After the base file is in we can > patch it to fix the errors. For those of you using a dozen aliases, > you might want to order them so that your current email is the last > one in the list. James Bottomley has the most aliases, 13.
The charset of the names is pretty random - that should be fixed at some point.
> PS It's not a diff because it would be too big to post.
200 kB would be OK for linux-kernel (AFAIR the current limit is 400 kB). But to prevent charset problems a compressed attachment might make sense...
> Jon Smirl
cu Adrian
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