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=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git-shortlog mailmap Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:41:38 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7vk62npipb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061026123424.GQ20017@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 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 1Gd4YE-0008HH-UV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:41:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423472AbWJZMlf (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:41:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423471AbWJZMle (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:41:34 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:10900 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423472AbWJZMld (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:41:33 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd4Y0-0008Ew-Ne for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:41:25 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.23.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:41:24 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:41:24 +0200 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git