From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:47:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Cleaning up log messages
Message-ID: <7vsktv17wc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807271050y7fb5f77coec05bd68421baaab@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?