From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Contributors, please check your names Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:22:01 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8ww0j4ye.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 10:23:12 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 1KJOla-00051d-6b for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:23:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752288AbYGQIWL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:22:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751321AbYGQIWL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:22:11 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:34141 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbYGQIWK (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:22:10 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A8F272E6; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:22:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58F5E272E5; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:22:06 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 72377C5A-53D9-11DD-BB51-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A handy way to look at the list of contributors is: $ git shortlog -s --since=6.month This shows the number of patches in our history for each contributor. The patch author name (excluding e-mail part) is used for summarizing, and this allows the same person to send patches under more than one e-mail address and still count these patches as authored by one person. Your name however can appear more than once in different spellings, if you sent patches using different human-readable names on From: line of your patch submission from the same (or different) e-mail address. E.g. these two patches are counted under different authors: Author: A. U. Thor Date: Wed Jul 09:23:06 2008 -0700 The first patch... Author: A U Thor Date: Wed Jul 09:23:07 2008 -0700 The second patch... 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. If your name appears more than once in the output from the "shortlog" command at the beginning of this message, you may want to tell me to fix it. Thanks.