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Re: short log and email address

From
Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Date
Jul 28, 2008, 18:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20080728181101.GA9148@sirena.org.uk>
In-Reply-To
<9e4733910807281106y56f8b67ao86f78822c4b4ad58@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:06:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Using the -e option in shortlog changes the results by spitting things
> out by email address instead of leaving them combined  by name. That's
> probably not what you want. Instead you want everything combined by
> name and then display the most recent email address used.

Apart from anything else you're assuming that people's names are globally unique - they aren't. I'm aware of several Mark Browns active in the free software world, for example.

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