From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 10:43:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20190805174355.GJ28441@linux.ibm.com> References: <20190805121517.4734-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> <76010b66-a662-5b07-a21d-ed074d7d2194@gmail.com> <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrea Parri , Akira Yokosawa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Alan Stern , Will Deacon , Peter Zijlstra , Boqun Feng , Nicholas Piggin , David Howells , Jade Alglave , Luc Maranget , Daniel Lustig List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org 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 Thanx, Paul