Re: git-shortlog mailmap

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 [off-list ref] said that...

quoted

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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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.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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