Re: short log and email address

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 28, 2008, 19:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807282010190.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807281157u44c08a59ld3bdc0416e8a1d03@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:

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> On 7/28/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> >  On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, 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.
> >
> > What is so wrong with _not_ using -e (since you do not want to see the 
> > email address stored in the commit message, and -e would be asking for 
> > that _exactly_)?
> 
> I wanted -e to give me the most recent email so that I would know how
> to sort the mailmap alias list.

As I explained, that is not what -e is _supposed_ to do. In Git, content is king, and as such -e should look at the content. Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what it does.

Nothing prohibits you from post-processing the output, though.

Ciao, Dscho