Re: Cleaning up log messages

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 [off-list ref]
Author: Greg KH [off-list ref]
Author: Greg KH [off-list ref]
Author: Greg KH <greg@press.(none)>
Author: gregkh@suse.de [off-list ref]
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse>
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref]
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref]

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