From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-shortlog mailmap
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:41:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ehqaco$r4l$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20061026123424.GQ20017@pasky.or.cz
Petr Baudis wrote:
> I think I've complained about this in the past, but can't find the mail.
>
> Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:25:50AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>> > BTW what happened to the builtin shortlog? It is the last Perl script I
>> > use regularly... (should make people happy who are stuck with Activision
>> > Perl...)
>>
>> BTW. both Perl version and builtin shorlog have email->real name translation
>> table built in. In Perl script version it is in __DATA__ section, and we
>> could update it using Inline::Files module, in C version it was in table.
>> But in fact this list is project specific. Shouldn't we make it customizable
>> (::sigh::, yet another file in $GIT_DIR...).
>
> I really dislike the fact that we _do_ this mapping at all, this seems
> so much a totally wrong point at which to do it. The information tracked
> in Git is still wrong and all the tools except shortlog still display it
> wrong - why should shortlog in particular be special? Why don't we do
> this at the git-am time instead?
Because git-shortlog has to deal also with _historical_ data, which caused
one way or the other to have only email and not realname recorded. So till
history gets rewritteen, and tags resigned, git-shortlog has to do the
mapping to have meaningfull output.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-26 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 8:47 What's in git.git Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26 9:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-26 9:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26 12:08 ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-26 12:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-26 9:18 ` merge-recursive, was " Johannes Schindelin
2006-10-26 9:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-26 9:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26 9:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-26 13:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-26 12:34 ` git-shortlog mailmap Petr Baudis
2006-10-26 12:41 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-10-26 12:43 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-10-26 13:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-26 13:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-10-26 13:29 ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-26 9:26 ` merge-recursive, was Re: What's in git.git Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26 10:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-10-26 11:35 ` shortlog, was " Andreas Ericsson
2006-10-26 13:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-26 13:45 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-10-26 9:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-27 1:10 ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-26 12:22 ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-26 17:27 ` Andy Whitcroft
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