Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:09:28 -0700 |
| |
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 10:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > 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.o > rg> <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Well, you could, but there's no need. As long as your email has 'Paul E. McKenney' as the text prefix, git-shortlog will do the correct aggregation without any need for a .mailmap entry. However, if, say, your linaro email had been
Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.com>
Then you would need one because git-shortlog would think 'Paul McKenney' and 'Paul E. McKenney' were two different people.
James
| |