From: Jon Smirl Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:25:23 GMT Subject: Re: short log and email address Message-ID: <9e4733910807281125m7e555377l89cb57dff0f57ee2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080728181101.GA9148@sirena.org.uk> On 7/28/08, Mark Brown wrote: > 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 Mark Brown Same or two different people? These two names have committed to the kernel. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com