On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:09:28AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> <[email protected]
> > rg> <[email protected]>
>
> 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 <[email protected]>
>
> Then you would need one because git-shortlog would think 'Paul
> McKenney' and 'Paul E. McKenney' were two different people.
Thank you for the explication!
Thanx, Paul
