From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrea Parri Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 18:21:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20190805162100.GA2368@aparri> References: <20190805121517.4734-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> <76010b66-a662-5b07-a21d-ed074d7d2194@gmail.com> <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: 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 , "Paul E. McKenney" , Daniel Lustig List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks for the remarks, James. Given this, I'm okay with the submitted version (i.e., no change to .mailmap). Andrea From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm1-f66.google.com ([209.85.128.66]:40558 "EHLO mail-wm1-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728842AbfHEQVK (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2019 12:21:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 18:21:00 +0200 From: Andrea Parri Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri Message-ID: <20190805162100.GA2368@aparri> References: <20190805121517.4734-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> <76010b66-a662-5b07-a21d-ed074d7d2194@gmail.com> <20190805151545.GA1615@aparri> <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: James Bottomley Cc: 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 , "Paul E. McKenney" , Daniel Lustig Message-ID: <20190805162100.5Vminqm9ZylKvYo1_UYpAYnZB4lf4VGLAanAqiQVtJE@z> 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. Thanks for the remarks, James. Given this, I'm okay with the submitted version (i.e., no change to .mailmap). Andrea