20/10/2025 16:08, Bruce Richardson: > The mailmap file in DPDK is not always correctly sorted, and standard > cmdline sorting tools don't always do the job correctly. To improve > things, add a new script to devtools for working with the mailmap file, > to make it easier to add new entries in the correct place, to check the > file for correctness, and lastly to sort the file in place (hopefully a > one-off operation). > > Once that is done, commit the changes to the mailmap file to ensure it > is correctly sorted in the repository. > > V4: minor changes based on more feedback: > - sort imports alphabetically > - remove unused "operations" map > > V3: > * feedback from Robin's review: > - used builtin type annotations > - used argparse subparsers and callbacks for individual commands > * re-sorted latest mailmap in patch 2 > > V2: > * address multiple feedback items on V1. > * fix bug whereby adding an extra actually sorted the whole file > > Bruce Richardson (2): > devtools/mailmap_ctl: script to work with mailmap > mailmap: sort mailmap > > .mailmap | 356 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- > devtools/mailmap_ctl.py | 209 +++++++++++++++++++++++
For consistency, it should be named devtools/mailmap-ctl.py Applied with this minor change, thanks.
