Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 12:52:49 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 18:46 +0200, Philipp Riemer wrote:
> 2012/5/16 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > Why add these entries at all again?
> Due to the research for my thesis, I tried to find out how many
> developers are contributing to the Linux Kernel. First I thought that
> this would be easy since there was already a mailmap file that
> contained information about ambiguous email addresses. But I
> discovered pretty fast that there were more names with typos etc. so
> that I started to add those to the file as well.
>
> > For instance, my name is listed once in your patch.
> > and I don't see a reason it should be entered at all.
> Your name appears in the list because I did a search and you are
> listed with three "different" entries:
> * Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> * joe@xxxxxxxxxxx <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> * Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Actually, I just realized that I even forgot to add the entry for the
> ".ccom" and will add it before re-submitting.

OK then.

When you do resubmit, please use an email client
that doesn't wrap long lines.

cheers, Joe

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