On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:18:00AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > v2.18.0-rc0~70^2 (mailmap: update brian m. carlson's email address, > 2018-05-08) changed the mailmap to map > > [email protected] > -> brian m. carlson <[email protected]> > > instead of > > [email protected] > -> brian m. carlson <[email protected]> > > That means the mapping > > Brian M. Carlson <[email protected]> > -> brian m. carlson <[email protected]> > > is redundant, so we can remove it. More importantly, it means that > the identity "Brian M. Carlson <[email protected]>" used in > some commits is not normalized any more. Add a mapping for it. > > Noticed while updating Debian's Git packaging, which uses "git > shortlog --no-merges" to produce a list of changes in each version, > grouped by author's (normalized) name.
I think this commit message makes sense. I apparently still fail to understand how the .mailmap format works, so I can't tell you if the patch is correct. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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