From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up log messages
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:52:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910807271352h67044045y7576a719d4cc80cd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsktv17wc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 7/27/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I was playing around with git log for the kernel and observed that
> > there is a lot of noise when trying to do statistics on the number of
> > commits.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > Author: Greg K-H <gregkh@suse.de>
> > Author: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> > ...
>
> > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
>
>
> We have had .mailmap since a24e658 (git-shortlog: make the mailmap
> configurable., 2005-10-06); maybe the kernel tree wants a maintainer for
> the .mailmap file?
This seems to be the main problem. There are so many missing entries
from the .mailmap file that I didn't think this feature was
implemented. I'd guestimate that 300-400 needed entries are missing.
I've made a few attempts at writing a script to fix the easy ones but
I don't have a good solution yet.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-27 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-27 17:50 Cleaning up log messages Jon Smirl
2008-07-27 18:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-27 18:16 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-27 18:33 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-27 19:07 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-27 19:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-27 19:31 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-27 20:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-27 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-27 20:52 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
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