Re: Contributors, please check your names

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > 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, <author@example.xz>, 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 <author@example.xz>
> > 
> > It tells the shortlog (and --pretty=format:%aN in recent enough git)
> > mechanism to give huma readable name "A. U. Thor" anytime it sees
> > <author@example.xz> e-mail address, regardless of what the Author:
> > header in the commit object says.
> 
> What about if some authors use different _email_ address, instead?
> Is there any way for shortlog to consider them the same?

It already does, unless you use the -e switch.


Nicolas