Re: [PATCH/RFC] shortlog: add option to group together different names/emails of an author

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 19, 2009, 14:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901191528280.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090119141107.GA27992@chistera.yi.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote:

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> * Johannes Schindelin [Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:49:39 +0100]:
> 
> > > Ping? I realize this may be seen as a big patch dropped out of the blue,
> > > but I would very much like to hear some comments on at least the feature
> > > itself, which should not take more than reading the commit message.
> 
> > And you could just as well write a script that takes the output of
> 
> > 	$ git log --pretty=format:%an\ %ae --all | sort | uniq
> 
> > and constructs a valid .mailmap.  That would also have the advantage that 
> > you do not need to perform the analysis each time you call Git.
> 
> No, not really. As mentioned in the commit message, .mailmap files don't 
> help when you invoke shortlog with -e, and different email addresses for 
> an author are involved.

Well, the whole point of -e is that you want to see the email addresses, too. So I am not really convinced it would be a good idea to mangle them.

But hey, I only expressed a personal opinion; If you can convince others, you still might bring that feature in. You'll have to convince them, though.

Ciao, Dscho