Re: Contributors, please check your names

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

There is a "mailmap" mechanism to consolidate them; it allows us to
specify what human-readable name should be used for given e-mail address.
The hypothetical Mr. Thor might want to say "I am A. U. Thor; some commits
from me, [off-list ref], are marked without abbreviating periods in
my name", and we can add this entry to the toplevel .mailmap file to fix
it:

	A. U. Thor [off-list ref]

It tells the shortlog (and --pretty=format:%aN in recent enough git)
mechanism to give huma readable name "A. U. Thor" anytime it sees
[off-list ref] e-mail address, regardless of what the Author:
header in the commit object says.

What about if some authors use different _email_ address, instead?
Is there any way for shortlog to consider them the same?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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