On 7/28/08, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:06:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Using the -e option in shortlog changes the results by spitting things > > out by email address instead of leaving them combined by name. That's > > probably not what you want. Instead you want everything combined by > > name and then display the most recent email address used. > > Apart from anything else you're assuming that people's names are > globally unique - they aren't. I'm aware of several Mark Browns active > in the free software world, for example. There is a conflicting problem, multiple people with the same name and people using multiple email addresses. The only solution I can see is for the Mark Brown developers to get together and come up with a way to differentiate their signatures (initial, nickname, etc), otherwise I can't tell them apart from someone using multiple email addresses. Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Same or two different people? These two names have committed to the kernel. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
