Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri

[James Bottomley]

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.

James