Re: short log and email address

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2008, 18:25 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910807281125m7e555377l89cb57dff0f57ee2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080728181101.GA9148@sirena.org.uk>

On 7/28/08, Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:06:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>  > Using the -e option in shortlog changes the results by spitting things
>  > out by email address instead of leaving them combined  by name. That's
>  > probably not what you want. Instead you want everything combined by
>  > name and then display the most recent email address used.
>
> Apart from anything else you're assuming that people's names are
>  globally unique - they aren't.  I'm aware of several Mark Browns active
>  in the free software world, for example.

There is a conflicting problem, multiple people with the same name and people using multiple email addresses. The only solution I can see is for the Mark Brown developers to get together and come up with a way to differentiate their signatures (initial, nickname, etc), otherwise I can't tell them apart from someone using multiple email addresses.

Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Same or two different people? These two names have committed to the kernel.

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Jon Smirl
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