On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:23:38AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:15 +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > > > Why don't you also add an entry in .mailmap as Will did in commit > > > c584b1202f2d ("MAINTAINERS: Update my email address to use > > > @kernel.org")? > > > > I considered it but could not understand its purpose... Maybe you > > can explain it to me? ;-) (can resend with this change if > > needed/desired). > > man git-shortlog gives you the gory detail, but its use is to "coalesce > together commits by the same person in the shortlog, where their name > and/or email address was spelled differently." The usual way this > happens is that people have the name that appears in the From field > with and without initials.
New one on me, thank you! So I should have a line in .mailmap like this? Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <paul.mcken...@linaro.org> <paul...@linux.ibm.com> Thanx, Paul