Petr Baudis wrote: > I think I've complained about this in the past, but can't find the mail. > > Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:25:50AM CEST, I got a letter > where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> said that... >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> >> > BTW what happened to the builtin shortlog? It is the last Perl script I >> > use regularly... (should make people happy who are stuck with Activision >> > Perl...) >> >> BTW. both Perl version and builtin shorlog have email->real name translation >> table built in. In Perl script version it is in __DATA__ section, and we >> could update it using Inline::Files module, in C version it was in table. >> But in fact this list is project specific. Shouldn't we make it customizable >> (::sigh::, yet another file in $GIT_DIR...). > > I really dislike the fact that we _do_ this mapping at all, this seems > so much a totally wrong point at which to do it. The information tracked > in Git is still wrong and all the tools except shortlog still display it > wrong - why should shortlog in particular be special? Why don't we do > this at the git-am time instead? Because git-shortlog has to deal also with _historical_ data, which caused one way or the other to have only email and not realname recorded. So till history gets rewritteen, and tags resigned, git-shortlog has to do the mapping to have meaningfull output. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html