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 11:09:28 -0700 Message-ID: <1565028568.15050.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <20190805121517.4734-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> <76010b66-a662-5b07-a21d-ed074d7d2194@gmail.com> <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20190805174355.GJ28441@linux.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190805174355.GJ28441@linux.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: paulmck@linux.ibm.com Cc: Andrea Parri , Akira Yokosawa , 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 , Daniel Lustig List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 10:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:23:38AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > 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. > > New one on me, thank you! So I should have a line in .mailmap like > this? > > Paul E. McKenney rg> Well, you could, but there's no need. As long as your email has 'Paul E. McKenney' as the text prefix, git-shortlog will do the correct aggregation without any need for a .mailmap entry. However, if, say, your linaro email had been Paul McKenney Then you would need one because git-shortlog would think 'Paul McKenney' and 'Paul E. McKenney' were two different people. James From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:44634 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727830AbfHESJd (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:09:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1565028568.15050.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri From: James Bottomley Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:09:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20190805174355.GJ28441@linux.ibm.com> References: <20190805121517.4734-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> <76010b66-a662-5b07-a21d-ed074d7d2194@gmail.com> <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20190805174355.GJ28441@linux.ibm.com> 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: paulmck@linux.ibm.com Cc: Andrea Parri , Akira Yokosawa , 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 , Daniel Lustig Message-ID: <20190805180928.6lQ19a7R62nPhlEf7Fh5S4SER3i9CqPwhbOA0HFc3ys@z> On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 10:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:23:38AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > 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. > > New one on me, thank you! So I should have a line in .mailmap like > this? > > Paul E. McKenney rg> Well, you could, but there's no need. As long as your email has 'Paul E. McKenney' as the text prefix, git-shortlog will do the correct aggregation without any need for a .mailmap entry. However, if, say, your linaro email had been Paul McKenney Then you would need one because git-shortlog would think 'Paul McKenney' and 'Paul E. McKenney' were two different people. James