From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: short log and email address
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:11:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728181101.GA9148@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807281106y56f8b67ao86f78822c4b4ad58@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:06:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Using the -e option in shortlog changes the results by spitting things
> out by email address instead of leaving them combined by name. That's
> probably not what you want. Instead you want everything combined by
> name and then display the most recent email address used.
Apart from anything else you're assuming that people's names are
globally unique - they aren't. I'm aware of several Mark Browns active
in the free software world, for example.
--
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 18:06 short log and email address Jon Smirl
2008-07-28 18:11 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2008-07-28 18:25 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-29 10:22 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-28 18:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-28 18:57 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-28 19:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 22:30 ` René Scharfe
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