linux-kernel - Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

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Message-ID: <488DFD97.7080802@simon.arlott.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:10:47 +0100
From:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
To:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

On 28/07/08 18:05, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu> 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.

No, I've submitted patches using three email addresses (well, two - one is 
a typo).
 
>>  Please read git-shortlog(1) and then remove me from this file because it
>> won't change anything.

Try running "git shortlog" too, you'll see I only appear once using the 
existing 99-line .mailmap file.

-- 
Simon Arlott
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