Jon Smirl schrieb: > On 7/28/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> 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. <snip> > If the name isn't in mailmap, tell them to make a patch adding their > name or to change their name. That makes sense if you want to list all contributors in .mailmap... > If the name is there but the email is not the last one in the list, > tell them to make a patch rearranging mailmap to reflect their current > name/email. ... but why would you want to check if they used their respective email entry that is sorted last in the file? A person might have multiple current email addresses, e.g. someone could send patches for one subsystem from work and patches for something else from home, as a hobby. René -- 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
