From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:34:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <841240882e8b21aa069d8ca863a67d5d407cda30.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202008080013.58EBD83@keescook>
On Sat, 2020-08-08 at 00:14 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Without having first read the git-shortlog man-page first, the format
> of .mailmap may not be immediately obvious. Add comments with pointers
> to the man-page, along with other details.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
> I'm adding this to my earlier .mailmap update series:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200730183702.702552-1-keescook@chromium.org/
> ---
> .mailmap | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
> index 6c1c04a63b18..3a991e19928c 100644
> --- a/.mailmap
> +++ b/.mailmap
> @@ -2,11 +2,16 @@
> # This list is used by git-shortlog
and scripts/get_maintainer.pl
Today, this list is primarily used not for
messed up email addresses. It's mostly used
to map no longer in-use email addresses to
current email address.
> to fix a few botched name translations
> # in the git archive, either because the author's full name was messed up
> # and/or not always written the same way, making contributions from the
> -# same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed.
> +# same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed. Also allows for
> +# old email addresses to map to new email addresses.
> #
> +# For format details, see "MAPPING AUTHORS" in "man git-shortlog".
> +#
> +# Please keep this list dictionary sorted.
> +#
> +# This comment is parsed by git-shortlog:
> # repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
> #
> -
> Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
> Adam Oldham <oldhamca@gmail.com>
> Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-08 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-08 7:14 [PATCH] mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis Kees Cook
2020-08-08 17:34 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-08-11 16:46 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-08-11 21:24 ` Kees Cook
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