Re: Cleaning up log messages

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 7/27/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>  > On 7/27/08, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>  > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:16:30PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>  > >  > On 7/27/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > > Something like .mailmap?
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  And to show the mapped author name instead of the committed one, you would
>  > >  > >  use "--pretty=format:%aN"?  (Needs 1.6.0-rc0 at least, IIRC)
>  > >  >
>  > >  > So we can already do this? Where is a .mailmap for the kernel tree?
>  > >
>  > >         http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6.git?a=blob;f=.mailmap
>  > >
>  > >  ...right there. :-)
>  >
>  > I updated to 1.6.0-rc0 and this is working. mailmap needs some
>  > cleanup. Errors are still in the list, but this is a lot better than
>  > it was. That made about 800 'contributors' disappear.
>  >
>  > Is there a way to do short log and have it map the names?
>
>
> Yes, as of v1.6.0-rc0~58 you can pass --pretty=format: to shortlog.

How do you do it with git log? --pretty overrides the default of medium

--pretty[=<format>]

    Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
where <format> can be one of oneline, short, medium, full, fuller,
email, raw and format:<string>. When omitted, the format defaults to
medium.


>
>
>  > What about replacing the emails with their current email address?
>
>
> Nope, that was never meant to be done.
>
>  Ciao,
>  Dscho
>
>


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Jon Smirl
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