On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:28:29PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > > Create a .mailmap file as described in git-shortlog(1). This is used to > > map commits that contain different names or email addresses to the same > > person. > > > > This file will automatically be used by git-shortlog. It can also be > > used by other commands, such as git-log by providing the --use-mailmap > > option. > > > > Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]> > > The documentation for this feature is super-confusing, to the point that > I don't actually understand it. I'm going to assume that you got it > correct, though. >
Yeah ... I think I got it. I should probably document a simplified version of my interpretation in this file for others. > Another equivalence I've noticed is RYAN D. MOATS for Ryan Moat > I think that one is covered in a nicely confusing way by this line: +Ryan Moats <[email protected]> which I interpret as: any time the email address <[email protected]> is encountered, "Ryan Moats" is the correct full name to use. This file did get rid of the duplicate RYAN, for me. Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> > Thanks, I applied this to master. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
