Re: [Query] Can we ignore case for commiters name in shortlog?

[David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:09 PM, viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Junio and others,
>
> I have a query. git shortlog lists the patches submitted per commiter, like:
>
>> Viresh Kumar (7):
>>       cpufreq: Improve debug prints
>>       cpufreq: return early from __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
>>       cpufreq: governors: remove redundant code
>>       cpufreq: Fix sparse warnings by updating cputime64_t to u64
>>       cpufreq: Fix sparse warning by making local function static
>>       cpufreq: Avoid calling cpufreq driver's target() routine if target_freq == policy->cur
>>       cpufreq: Make sure target freq is within limits
>
>> viresh kumar (3):
>>       cpufreq / core: Fix typo in comment describing show_bios_limit()
>>       cpufreq / core: Fix printing of governor and driver name
>>       cpufreq: Move common part from governors to separate file, v2
>
> I know, there was something wrong at my end and i have commited stuff
> with different cases.
>
> I was just thinking if we can ignore case for commiter name while
> listing stuff here?
> So, that we get over any manual mistakes from commiter.

There's a feature that does exactly this.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-shortlog.html

See the section called "Mapping Authors".
It discusses the .mailmap file.
-- 
David