From: Jon Smirl Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:16:30 GMT Subject: Re: Cleaning up log messages Message-ID: <9e4733910807271116q29323664l8d44fdded1de8c8e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 7/27/08, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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 > > Author: Greg KH > > Author: Greg KH > > Author: Greg KH > > Author: gregkh@suse.de > > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > 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? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com