From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Contributors, please check your names Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7v8ww0j4ye.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 16:51:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJUp4-0001He-1z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754641AbYGQOuB (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:50:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758183AbYGQOuB (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:50:01 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.187]:46264 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754289AbYGQOt7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:49:59 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b6so3363844tic.23 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:49:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=30b8AJpUiPXnCT2Yg8KwaGvdyCTdQdsGVeKx5oJSzSU=; b=i7g96wjep2suGfIlC5ahncroYy6vsBTTtRN4jVEyilcgbTpFrGsSrtzNMfiMahEf7E uUr2nUu1Amsno7NEuZS1xvTM1Kagfymm+rv6g2S84TQo5mOrh2vjIrXQHMElE23D4YZ5 ygefG9rBbQbtKv5IzpenoZiePOjNIhWBFXLeI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=HC77bGkTn1RCJYTyvxshtCfHT8np77hZ5fT1lhkPHStiC6sOO1HcXMJ7vz7BVk0znR o0PE15coYdhqlc0rGBY1A/25cWj5hFR6jCEbVq4uG8LcYKaUh+qOnwxiYoJ1EdrKZTP7 GqCoFPNe6jE6IHKMqAmfiNwUozc8RUqVETWT4= Received: by 10.150.192.7 with SMTP id p7mr547706ybf.91.1216306196619; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ( [83.8.254.74]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m30sm15130elf.12.2008.07.17.07.49.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m6HEnKVk011521; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:49:20 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m6HEnJ9V011518; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:49:19 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <7v8ww0j4ye.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > There is a "mailmap" mechanism to consolidate them; it allows us to > specify what human-readable name should be used for given e-mail address. > The hypothetical Mr. Thor might want to say "I am A. U. Thor; some commits > from me, , are marked without abbreviating periods in > my name", and we can add this entry to the toplevel .mailmap file to fix > it: > > A. U. Thor > > It tells the shortlog (and --pretty=format:%aN in recent enough git) > mechanism to give huma readable name "A. U. Thor" anytime it sees > e-mail address, regardless of what the Author: > header in the commit object says. What about if some authors use different _email_ address, instead? Is there any way for shortlog to consider them the same? -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git