From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 10:43:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190805174355.GJ28441@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1565018618.3341.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
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 <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-05 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-05 12:15 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri Andrea Parri
2019-08-05 15:01 ` Akira Yokosawa
2019-08-05 15:15 ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-05 15:23 ` James Bottomley
2019-08-05 16:21 ` Andrea Parri
2019-08-05 17:43 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2019-08-05 18:09 ` James Bottomley
2019-08-05 22:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-08-07 16:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-20 16:16 Andrea Parri
2018-04-20 20:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
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