linux-kernel - [PATCH] mailmap: remove the "repo-abbrev" comment

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:04:38 +0100
From:   Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 
        <avarab@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 
        <avarab@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mailmap: remove the "repo-abbrev" comment

Remove the magical "repo-abbrev" comment added when this file was
introduced in e0ab1ec9fcd3 ([PATCH] add .mailmap for proper
git-shortlog output, 2007-02-14).

It's been an undocumented feature of git-shortlog(1), originally added
to git for Linus's use. Since then he's no longer using it[1], and
I've removed the feature in git.git's 4e168333a87 (shortlog: remove
unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature, 2021-01-12). It's on the "master"
branch, but not yet in a release version.

Let's also remove it from linux.git, both as a heads-up to any
potential users of it in linux.git whose use would be broken sooner
than later by git itself, and because it'll eventually be entirely
redundant.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAHk-=wixHyBKZVUcxq+NCWMbkrX0xnppb7UCopRWw1+oExYpYw@mail.gmail.com/

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@...il.com>
---
 .mailmap | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index b1ab0129c7d6..cc4e91d3075e 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
 #
 # Please keep this list dictionary sorted.
 #
-# This comment is parsed by git-shortlog:
-# repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
-#
 Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...gle.com>
 Adam Oldham <oldhamca@...il.com>
 Adam Radford <aradford@...il.com>
-- 
2.29.2.222.g5d2a92d10f8