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Re: [Query] Can we ignore case for commiters name in shortlog?

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David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 30, 2012, 03:24 UTC
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:09 PM, viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
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> Hi Junio and others,
>
> I have a query. git shortlog lists the patches submitted per commiter, like:
>
>> Viresh Kumar (7):
>>       cpufreq: Improve debug prints
>>       cpufreq: return early from __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
>>       cpufreq: governors: remove redundant code
>>       cpufreq: Fix sparse warnings by updating cputime64_t to u64
>>       cpufreq: Fix sparse warning by making local function static
>>       cpufreq: Avoid calling cpufreq driver's target() routine if target_freq == policy->cur
>>       cpufreq: Make sure target freq is within limits
>
>> viresh kumar (3):
>>       cpufreq / core: Fix typo in comment describing show_bios_limit()
>>       cpufreq / core: Fix printing of governor and driver name
>>       cpufreq: Move common part from governors to separate file, v2
>
> I know, there was something wrong at my end and i have commited stuff
> with different cases.
>
> I was just thinking if we can ignore case for commiter name while
> listing stuff here?
> So, that we get over any manual mistakes from commiter.
There's a feature that does exactly this.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-shortlog.html

See the section called "Mapping Authors". It discusses the .mailmap file.

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David
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  1. viresh kumarNov 30, 2012
  2. David AguilarNov 30, 2012
  3. Viresh KumarNov 30, 2012
  4. Damien RobertNov 30, 2012
  5. Nicolas PitreNov 30, 2012
  6. Viresh KumarNov 30, 2012
  7. Max HornNov 30, 2012
  8. Viresh KumarNov 30, 2012
  9. Andreas SchwabNov 30, 2012

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