From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: short log and email address Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:11:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910807281106y56f8b67ao86f78822c4b4ad58@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910807281157u44c08a59ld3bdc0416e8a1d03@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List To: Jon Smirl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 28 21:12:53 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 1KNY9C-0001YE-Si for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:12:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751987AbYG1TLm (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:11:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751897AbYG1TLm (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:11:42 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:35285 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751893AbYG1TLl (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:11:41 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2008 19:11:40 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp067) with SMTP; 28 Jul 2008 21:11:40 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/BUvQOu8vB9g9hNvLaJVEasofkm6n089TAEqJMho VYa39hBsSPMBax X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807281157u44c08a59ld3bdc0416e8a1d03@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.71 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/28/08, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, 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. > > > > What is so wrong with _not_ using -e (since you do not want to see the > > email address stored in the commit message, and -e would be asking for > > that _exactly_)? > > I wanted -e to give me the most recent email so that I would know how > to sort the mailmap alias list. As I explained, that is not what -e is _supposed_ to do. In Git, content is king, and as such -e should look at the content. Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what it does. Nothing prohibits you from post-processing the output, though. Ciao, Dscho