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SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:23:38AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> 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.

New one on me, thank you! So I should have a line in .mailmap like this?

Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>

Thanx, Paul

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