Re: Cleaning up log messages

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2008, 18:16 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910807271116q29323664l8d44fdded1de8c8e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807272000270.5526@eeepc-johanness>

On 7/27/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>
>  On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>  > 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 KH <greg@kroah.com>
>  > Author: Greg KH <greg@press.(none)>
>  > Author: gregkh@suse.de <gregkh@suse.de>
>  > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse>
>  > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>  > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
>  >
>  > I don't see an obvious way to do this with git, but it would be neat
>  > to have a 'clean' option on git log that would take each email address
>  > (author, signed-off, acked, etc) and map it through a table which
>  > would convert old email addresses in to the current one and also
>  > standardize the formatting of the names.
>
>
> Something like .mailmap?
>
>  And to show the mapped author name instead of the committed one, you would
>  use "--pretty=format:%aN"?  (Needs 1.6.0-rc0 at least, IIRC)

So we can already do this? Where is a .mailmap for the kernel tree?

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com