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[PATCH 4/5] .mailmap: normalize emails for Linus Torvalds

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 12, 2012, 11:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20121212114104.GD18803@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20121212113036.GB19625@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Linus used a lot of different per-machine email addresses in the early days. This means that "git shortlog -nse" does not aggregate his counts, and he is listed well below where he should be (8th instead of 3rd).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Linus,

I recall you considered "email ident from random machine" as a feature very early on in git's history, but you seem to have settled on using the linux-foundation address pretty consistently these days. Please let me know if you object to normalizing your entries in this way.

 .mailmap | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 4a27b7f..c7e8618 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ Li Hong <leehong@pku.edu.cn>
 Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line ! de>
 Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line.de>
 Li Hong <leehong@pku.edu.cn>
+Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
+Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
+Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> <torvalds@evo.osdl.org>
+Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
+Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org.(none)>
 Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
 Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
 Mark Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca>
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  2. 1/5 .mailmap: match up some obvious names/emailsJeff King, Dec 12, 2012
  3. 2/5 .mailmap: fix broken entry for Martin LanghoffJeff King, Dec 12, 2012
  4. 3/5 .mailmap: normalize emails for Jeff KingJeff King, Dec 12, 2012
  5. 4/5 .mailmap: normalize emails for Linus TorvaldsJeff King, Dec 12, 2012
  6. 5/5 contrib: update stats/mailmap scriptJeff King, Dec 12, 2012

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