[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Add .mailmap file.

[Russell Bryant]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:28:29PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > Create a .mailmap file as described in git-shortlog(1).  This is used to
> > map commits that contain different names or email addresses to the same
> > person.
> >
> > This file will automatically be used by git-shortlog.  It can also be
> > used by other commands, such as git-log by providing the --use-mailmap
> > option.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
>
> The documentation for this feature is super-confusing, to the point that
> I don't actually understand it.  I'm going to assume that you got it
> correct, though.
>

Yeah ... I think I got it.  I should probably document a simplified version
of my interpretation in this file for others.


> Another equivalence I've noticed is RYAN D. MOATS for Ryan Moat
>

I think that one is covered in a nicely confusing way by this line:

+Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>

which I interpret as: any time the email address <rmoats at us.ibm.com> is
encountered, "Ryan Moats" is the correct full name to use.

This file did get rid of the duplicate RYAN, for me.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
>

Thanks, I applied this to master.

-- 
Russell Bryant