Re: Cleaning up log messages

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2008, 20:52 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910807271352h67044045y7576a719d4cc80cd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vsktv17wc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 7/27/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "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?

This seems to be the main problem. There are so many missing entries from the .mailmap file that I didn't think this feature was implemented. I'd guestimate that 300-400 needed entries are missing.

I've made a few attempts at writing a script to fix the easy ones but I don't have a good solution yet.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com