Re: short log and email address

From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Jul 29, 2008, 22:30 UTC
Message-ID: <488F99E9.2010806@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807281157u44c08a59ld3bdc0416e8a1d03@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl schrieb:

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> On 7/28/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>  On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, 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.
>>
>>
>> What is so wrong with _not_ using -e (since you do not want to see the
>>  email address stored in the commit message, and -e would be asking for
>>  that _exactly_)?
> 
> I wanted -e to give me the most recent email so that I would know how
> to sort the mailmap alias list.

<snip>

> If the name isn't in mailmap, tell them to make a patch adding their
> name or to change their name.

That makes sense if you want to list all contributors in .mailmap...

> If the name is there but the email is not the last one in the list,
> tell them to make a patch rearranging mailmap to reflect their current
> name/email.

... but why would you want to check if they used their respective email entry that is sorted last in the file? A person might have multiple current email addresses, e.g. someone could send patches for one subsystem from work and patches for something else from home, as a hobby.

René