Re: Cleaning up log messages

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2008, 19:07 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910807271207o2e18cef1h869c659bd0ae31ba@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080727183309.GD32184@machine.or.cz>

On 7/27/08, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:16:30PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>  > On 7/27/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
>
>         http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6.git?a=blob;f=.mailmap
>
>  ...right there. :-)

I updated to 1.6.0-rc0 and this is working. mailmap needs some cleanup. Errors are still in the list, but this is a lot better than it was. That made about 800 'contributors' disappear.

Is there a way to do short log and have it map the names? What about replacing the emails with their current email address?

Random missing entries.... Greg KH Greg Kroah-Hartman

Hans J Koch Hans J. Koch

Jean-Christophe Dubois Jean-Christophe DUBOIS

Miguel Boton Miguel Botón

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com