The mailmap file in DPDK is not always correctly sorted, and standard cmdline sorting tools don't always do the job correctly. To improve things, add a new script to devtools for working with the mailmap file, to make it easier to add new entries in the correct place, to check the file for correctness, and lastly to sort the file in place (hopefully a one-off operation).
Once that is done, commit the changes to the mailmap file to ensure it is correctly sorted in the repository. V2: * address multiple feedback items on V1. * fix bug whereby adding an extra actually sorted the whole file Bruce Richardson (2): devtools/mailmap_ctl: script to work with mailmap mailmap: sort mailmap .mailmap | 354 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- devtools/mailmap_ctl.py | 212 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 389 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-) create mode 100755 devtools/mailmap_ctl.py -- 2.48.1
