Hi, On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/28/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, 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. > > > > What is so wrong with _not_ using -e (since you do not want to see the > > email address stored in the commit message, and -e would be asking for > > that _exactly_)? > > I wanted -e to give me the most recent email so that I would know how > to sort the mailmap alias list. As I explained, that is not what -e is _supposed_ to do. In Git, content is king, and as such -e should look at the content. Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what it does. Nothing prohibits you from post-processing the output, though. 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
