From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:23:38 -0700 Message-ID: <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <20190805121517.4734-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> <76010b66-a662-5b07-a21d-ed074d7d2194@gmail.com> <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrea Parri , Akira Yokosawa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Alan Stern , Will Deacon , Peter Zijlstra , Boqun Feng , Nicholas Piggin , David Howells , Jade Alglave , Luc Maranget , "Paul E. McKenney" , Daniel Lustig List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:15 +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > > Why don't you also add an entry in .mailmap as Will did in commit > > c584b1202f2d ("MAINTAINERS: Update my email address to use > > @kernel.org")? > > I considered it but could not understand its purpose... Maybe you > can explain it to me? ;-) (can resend with this change if > needed/desired). man git-shortlog gives you the gory detail, but its use is to "coalesce together commits by the same person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was spelled differently." The usual way this happens is that people have the name that appears in the From field with and without initials. James From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:40854 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728468AbfHEPXl (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:23:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri From: James Bottomley Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:23:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> References: <20190805121517.4734-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> <76010b66-a662-5b07-a21d-ed074d7d2194@gmail.com> <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrea Parri , Akira Yokosawa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Alan Stern , Will Deacon , Peter Zijlstra , Boqun Feng , Nicholas Piggin , David Howells , Jade Alglave , Luc Maranget , "Paul E. McKenney" , Daniel Lustig Message-ID: <20190805152338.SlVpdOInom4xJX8kCM3W9skuBu7elk-kOF7LFU_dWCA@z> On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:15 +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > > Why don't you also add an entry in .mailmap as Will did in commit > > c584b1202f2d ("MAINTAINERS: Update my email address to use > > @kernel.org")? > > I considered it but could not understand its purpose... Maybe you > can explain it to me? ;-) (can resend with this change if > needed/desired). man git-shortlog gives you the gory detail, but its use is to "coalesce together commits by the same person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was spelled differently." The usual way this happens is that people have the name that appears in the From field with and without initials. James