From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: short log and email address Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:25:23 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910807281125m7e555377l89cb57dff0f57ee2@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910807281106y56f8b67ao86f78822c4b4ad58@mail.gmail.com> <20080728181101.GA9148@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: "Mark Brown" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 28 20:26:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNXQV-0000Xa-S2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:26:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756054AbYG1SZ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:25:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755797AbYG1SZZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:25:25 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.24]:60419 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755657AbYG1SZY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:25:24 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so272208qwe.37 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:25:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=+E0GlLi+V6IJu2ohN6FGJo37Ua/+N8WHf/ca2AytXeg=; b=lNJHVtKAsOcIipz2uM/B6FdA8uVViFJEeanFfHjwa2fZ3Dc3n1/deN1WP+XWIBnwe0 gKAoPpbYUi1w1j2aTjP5hcwfIvtlckCcSOaFF6XjLaV5zcwNc1zYOpFEiktiTxrlz0OL i5Fs/+qSew3aE2LE47euytWnaM9BXohwQ1EzE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=SHI/7PUk6YvKsMAkDYxbXg26tLM353O7JsuYtHQ/jJxBBAlbsml/5XQnruekQlxllm WL0eOqrBrJ1MJMwZxa001g3xrYkXt0CfAclJThh9DPrOYahm1u6oP3OlZtYIyQa2Z7N+ HcPpgRj91FJUIr3onojNiM9A9qOTnyGik2EoA= Received: by 10.215.14.10 with SMTP id r10mr166573qai.48.1217269523297; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.205.1 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:25:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080728181101.GA9148@sirena.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 7/28/08, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:06:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Using the -e option in shortlog changes the results by spitting things > > out by email address instead of leaving them combined by name. That's > > probably not what you want. Instead you want everything combined by > > name and then display the most recent email address used. > > Apart from anything else you're assuming that people's names are > globally unique - they aren't. I'm aware of several Mark Browns active > in the free software world, for example. There is a conflicting problem, multiple people with the same name and people using multiple email addresses. The only solution I can see is for the Mark Brown developers to get together and come up with a way to differentiate their signatures (initial, nickname, etc), otherwise I can't tell them apart from someone using multiple email addresses. Mark Brown Mark Brown Same or two different people? These two names have committed to the kernel. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com