From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Packham Subject: Re: [Query] Update email-id in kernel source Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:44:34 +1200 Message-ID: <4FD9B282.7090106@gmail.com> References: <4FD860A9.4000804@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: viresh kumar X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 14 11:44:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sf6b4-0003Px-Lc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:44:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755055Ab2FNJoF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:44:05 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:34189 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753985Ab2FNJoE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:44:04 -0400 Received: by pbbrp8 with SMTP id rp8so3567819pbb.19 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:44:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=D9IxKtqVF/t8DyiQICh84kcsEtDrD7jLcKDZaUCWp30=; b=jAGcaER+g7L8L+jzFvqmJGAUmuu30wkO8ii/I8goh3yDoL8EVqENgPbmKCp0A3iQ0H f+BT+WA+abmMTTcFokTCdsBJRJlBhY+iz0A1sOkKXJkSYt7TGOUQWdmoAecjxSjCeBNR j2F5HWwx/3m1FMaPC9kPcCH2+HWpFeznKtAX3H5IzzWHLfq6t/0+1xN5dJe58ztE0EiU gv6xnHPU0FzLevTczacFVFbLjHug2FhsLf4OGxHtJmwZWGvo5aCd7uAtYZtJsKMJT37b vP8qBx9bardJX0JmRmFAffAhT8SqQxNXsekZOeQRmbrB/vz2FiOioNQiO0sRsJ0h71SQ afmQ== Received: by 10.68.227.198 with SMTP id sc6mr6077382pbc.138.1339667043515; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.66] (115-188-15-163.jetstream.xtra.co.nz. [115.188.15.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id oy8sm8950580pbc.52.2012.06.14.02.43.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:44:02 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120421 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: <4FD860A9.4000804@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 06/13/2012 09:43 PM, Chris Packham wrote: > 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 >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > 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 git log does support the .mailmap feature with the %aE format option but it looks like it doesn't do it by default. I'm guessing performance is probably the reason. Anyone else care to comment? (Re-send. Sorry for the spam, I can't convince my phone not to send HTML)