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

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Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date
Nov 30, 2012, 03:32 UTC
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On 30 November 2012 08:54, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
I have my name there :)

I thought using names with different case is actually different then misspelling it. And so, everybody must not be required to update their names in mailmap with different case. So, with same email id and same name (that may be in different case), we can show commits together in shortlog.

-- viresh

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