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Re: Cleaning up log messages

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2008, 18:47 UTC
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"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
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> I was playing around with git log for the kernel and observed that
> there is a lot of noise when trying to do statistics on the number of
> commits.
>
> For example:
>
> Author: Greg K-H <gregkh@suse.de>
> Author: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> ...
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

We have had .mailmap since a24e658 (git-shortlog: make the mailmap configurable., 2005-10-06); maybe the kernel tree wants a maintainer for the .mailmap file?

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  1. Jon SmirlJul 27, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 27, 2008
  3. Jon SmirlJul 27, 2008
  4. Petr BaudisJul 27, 2008
  5. Jon SmirlJul 27, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 27, 2008
  7. Jon SmirlJul 27, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinJul 27, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2008
  10. Jon SmirlJul 27, 2008

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