Re: short log and email address

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:

On 7/28/08, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

 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