From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: git-shortlog mailmap Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:43:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4540AD6E.6070201@op5.se> References: <7vk62npipb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061026123424.GQ20017@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd4a6-00009n-Cs for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:43:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423465AbWJZMnb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:43:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423475AbWJZMnb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:43:31 -0400 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:62095 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423465AbWJZMna (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:43:30 -0400 Received: by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix, from userid 588) id 36E976BE1C; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:43:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826F66BD02; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:43:26 +0200 (CEST) To: Jakub Narebski Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Jakub Narebski wrote: > Petr Baudis wrote: > >> I think I've complained about this in the past, but can't find the mail. >> >> Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:25:50AM CEST, I got a letter >> where Jakub Narebski said that... >>> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> >>>> BTW what happened to the builtin shortlog? It is the last Perl script I >>>> use regularly... (should make people happy who are stuck with Activision >>>> Perl...) >>> BTW. both Perl version and builtin shorlog have email->real name translation >>> table built in. In Perl script version it is in __DATA__ section, and we >>> could update it using Inline::Files module, in C version it was in table. >>> But in fact this list is project specific. Shouldn't we make it customizable >>> (::sigh::, yet another file in $GIT_DIR...). >> I really dislike the fact that we _do_ this mapping at all, this seems >> so much a totally wrong point at which to do it. The information tracked >> in Git is still wrong and all the tools except shortlog still display it >> wrong - why should shortlog in particular be special? Why don't we do >> this at the git-am time instead? > > Because git-shortlog has to deal also with _historical_ data, which caused > one way or the other to have only email and not realname recorded. So till > history gets rewritteen, and tags resigned, git-shortlog has to do the > mapping to have meaningfull output. Wouldn't this be better implemented in the rev-list code then, so all log viewers can benefit from it? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se