On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > There is a "mailmap" mechanism to consolidate them; it allows us to > > specify what human-readable name should be used for given e-mail address. > > The hypothetical Mr. Thor might want to say "I am A. U. Thor; some commits > > from me, <author@xxxxxxxxxx>, are marked without abbreviating periods in > > my name", and we can add this entry to the toplevel .mailmap file to fix > > it: > > > > A. U. Thor <author@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > It tells the shortlog (and --pretty=format:%aN in recent enough git) > > mechanism to give huma readable name "A. U. Thor" anytime it sees > > <author@xxxxxxxxxx> e-mail address, regardless of what the Author: > > header in the commit object says. > > What about if some authors use different _email_ address, instead? > Is there any way for shortlog to consider them the same? It already does, unless you use the -e switch. Nicolas -- 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
