Re: Cleaning up log messages

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:

> 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 KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Author: Greg KH <greg@press.(none)>
> Author: gregkh@suse.de <gregkh@suse.de>
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse>
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
> 
> I don't see an obvious way to do this with git, but it would be neat
> to have a 'clean' option on git log that would take each email address
> (author, signed-off, acked, etc) and map it through a table which
> would convert old email addresses in to the current one and also
> standardize the formatting of the names.

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)

Ciao,
Dscho