Re: Cleaning up log messages

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

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.

> What about replacing the emails with their current email address?

Nope, that was never meant to be done.

Ciao,
Dscho