linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri

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Message-ID: <20190805162100.GA2368@aparri>
Date:   Mon, 5 Aug 2019 18:21:00 +0200
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:     Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:23:38AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:15 +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > > Why don't you also add an entry in .mailmap as Will did in commit
> > > c584b1202f2d ("MAINTAINERS: Update my email address to use
> > > @kernel.org")?
> > 
> > I considered it but could not understand its purpose...  Maybe you
> > can explain it to me?  ;-) (can resend with this change if
> > needed/desired).
> 
> man git-shortlog gives you the gory detail, but its use is to "coalesce
> together commits by the same person in the shortlog, where their name
> and/or email address was spelled differently."  The usual way this
> happens is that people have the name that appears in the From field
> with and without initials.

Thanks for the remarks, James.  Given this, I'm okay with the submitted
version (i.e., no change to .mailmap).

  Andrea