Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

[Simon Arlott]

On 28/07/08 18:05, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 28/07/08 15:45, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > > Here's a new .mailmap file for the kernel that cleans up the horrible
> > > mess of names and email addresses in the log.  To use it put it at the
> > > root of your kernel tree and type 'git shortlog'. Before the clean up
> > > there were 4,284 developers, after 3,821. There are 5,051 unique
> > > emails.
> > >
> > > The mailmap file contains all email addresses that have been used to
> > > submit patches to the kernel. Don't freak out about your email address
> > > being in the file, if it is in the file it is already in Google since
> > > the kernel log is already in Google.
> > >
> >
> >  Just because anyone can grep the kernel log for email addresses [to send
> > spam to], doesn't mean that you need to do it for them.
>
> You need to be in the file since you have submitted patches using three aliases.

No, I've submitted patches using three email addresses (well, two - one is 
a typo).

> >  Please read git-shortlog(1) and then remove me from this file because it
> > won't change anything.

Try running "git shortlog" too, you'll see I only appear once using the 
existing 99-line .mailmap file.

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Simon Arlott
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