Re: [PATCH] shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature

From

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Date

Jan 5, 2021, 19:18 UTC

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<20210105130359.21139-1-avarab@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:04 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Remove support for the magical "repo-abbrev" comment in .mailmap
> files. This was added to .mailmap parsing in [1], as a generalized
> feature of the git-shortlog Perl script added earlier in [2].

Ack. As you found out, I haven't used this in ages.

           Linus