From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
To: viresh kumar <viresh.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, spear-devel <spear-devel@list.st.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Query] Update email-id in kernel source
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:43:05 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD860A9.4000804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOh2x=k==ZjqQk4bvvviz4Uy7Xg2yn0A+9vbYJ63VJa4qMCodA@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/13/2012 09:24 PM, viresh kumar wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have recently changed my company and am required to update my email address in
> kernel source.
>
> I can only see one way of doing that:
> - Do a git grep, update all files, commit and post the patch.
>
> Is there any better way of doing this that git provides, by which even
> 'git log' would show
> the latest id available? I heard from a friend but don't know if it exists.
>
> --
> Viresh
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Not sure if the kernel maintains one but projects can use a .mailmap[1]
file to do just this kind of thing. You'd still have to update code if
you want people to get hold of you from MODULE_AUTHOR statements.
--
[1] - http://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-13 9:43 UTC|newest]
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2012-06-13 9:24 [Query] Update email-id in kernel source viresh kumar
2012-06-13 9:43 ` Chris Packham [this message]
2012-06-14 9:44 ` Chris Packham
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