Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Mon Jul 28 2008 - 13:06:05 EST


On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28/07/08 15:45, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > Here's a new .mailmap file for the kernel that cleans up the horrible
> > mess of names and email addresses in the log. To use it put it at the
> > root of your kernel tree and type 'git shortlog'. Before the clean up
> > there were 4,284 developers, after 3,821. There are 5,051 unique
> > emails.
> >
> > The mailmap file contains all email addresses that have been used to
> > submit patches to the kernel. Don't freak out about your email address
> > being in the file, if it is in the file it is already in Google since
> > the kernel log is already in Google.
> >
>
> Just because anyone can grep the kernel log for email addresses [to send
> spam to], doesn't mean that you need to do it for them.

You need to be in the file since you have submitted patches using three aliases.

> Please read git-shortlog(1) and then remove me from this file because it
> won't change anything.
>
> --
> Simon Arlott
>


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Jon Smirl
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