Hi, On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > something else I just realized: you might want to use .mailmap, e.g. > > to coalesce the changes of Shawn "O." Pearce correctly. > > Ah, hmmm, but I'm not sure how, as not nearly every developer is in > the .mailmap file and many devs use different e-mails while most use > the same name. A similar file containing developer aliases maybe? > E.g.: > "Shawn Pearce = Shawn O. Pearce"? The mechanism is this: you look up the email in .mailmap (actually you parse that once, but the idea stays the same), and if there is a name for it, you use that _instead of_ the given author name. Otherwise you use the given author name, and typos be damned. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
