From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?= Subject: Re: short log and email address Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: <488F99E9.2010806@lsrfire.ath.cx> References: <9e4733910807281106y56f8b67ao86f78822c4b4ad58@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910807281157u44c08a59ld3bdc0416e8a1d03@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Git Mailing List To: Jon Smirl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 30 00:31:17 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 1KNxiu-0003GT-JP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:31:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755021AbYG2WaO convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:30:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754905AbYG2WaO (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:30:14 -0400 Received: from india601.server4you.de ([85.25.151.105]:60235 "EHLO india601.server4you.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754079AbYG2WaN (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:30:13 -0400 Received: from [10.0.1.200] (p57B7EFDE.dip.t-dialin.net [87.183.239.222]) by india601.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A01B62F8068; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:30:10 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807281157u44c08a59ld3bdc0416e8a1d03@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jon Smirl schrieb: > On 7/28/08, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote: >> >> > Using the -e option in shortlog changes the results by spitting t= hings >> > out by email address instead of leaving them combined by name. Th= at's >> > probably not what you want. Instead you want everything combined = by name >> > and then display the most recent email address used. >> >> >> What is so wrong with _not_ using -e (since you do not want to see t= he >> email address stored in the commit message, and -e would be asking = for >> that _exactly_)? >=20 > I wanted -e to give me the most recent email so that I would know how > to sort the mailmap alias list. > If the name isn't in mailmap, tell them to make a patch adding their > name or to change their name. That makes sense if you want to list all contributors in .mailmap... > If the name is there but the email is not the last one in the list, > tell them to make a patch rearranging mailmap to reflect their curren= t > name/email. =2E.. but why would you want to check if they used their respective ema= il entry that is sorted last in the file? A person might have multiple current email addresses, e.g. someone could send patches for one subsystem from work and patches for something else from home, as a hobb= y. Ren=E9