Re: short log and email address

Jon Smirl schrieb:

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

quoted

Hi,


 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.

<snip>

If the name isn't in mailmap, tell them to make a patch adding their
name or to change their name.

That makes sense if you want to list all contributors in .mailmap...

If the name is there but the email is not the last one in the list,
tell them to make a patch rearranging mailmap to reflect their current
name/email.

... but why would you want to check if they used their respective email
entry that is sorted last in the file?  A person might have multiple
current email addresses, e.g. someone could send patches for one
subsystem from work and patches for something else from home, as a hobby.

René