On 06/13/2012 09:43 PM, Chris Packham wrote: > On 06/13/2012 09:24 PM, viresh kumar wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I have recently changed my company and am required to update my email address in >> kernel source. >> >> I can only see one way of doing that: >> - Do a git grep, update all files, commit and post the patch. >> >> Is there any better way of doing this that git provides, by which even >> 'git log' would show >> the latest id available? I heard from a friend but don't know if it exists. >> >> -- >> Viresh >> -- >> 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 > > Not sure if the kernel maintains one but projects can use a .mailmap[1] > file to do just this kind of thing. You'd still have to update code if > you want people to get hold of you from MODULE_AUTHOR statements. > > -- > [1] - http://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog git log does support the .mailmap feature with the %aE format option but it looks like it doesn't do it by default. I'm guessing performance is probably the reason. Anyone else care to comment? (Re-send. Sorry for the spam, I can't convince my phone not to send HTML) -- 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