Re: merge-recursive, was Re: What's in git.git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 26, 2006, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlkn3o1w1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <ehputm$ch2$3@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> BTW what happened to the builtin shortlog? It is the last Perl script I 
>> use regularly... (should make people happy who are stuck with Activision 
>> Perl...)
>
> BTW. both Perl version and builtin shorlog have email->real name translation
> table built in. In Perl script version it is in __DATA__ section, and we
> could update it using Inline::Files module, in C version it was in table.
> But in fact this list is project specific. Shouldn't we make it customizable
> (::sigh::, yet another file in $GIT_DIR...).

It already reads from .mailmap which could be tracked as part of the sources (if it is project specific it would be better if it can be shared among members).