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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2020-08-08 00:14:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-08-11 10:45:19 -0600 |
| commit | 2824a3669fb28324a76bba1d2203f2f11b126124 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c601100127e7236c33d2b9cc9f973ad9fee0e19 /.mailmap | |
| parent | 502b675050a506fb966c6f273d2ce42e5d8ddb07 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-2824a3669fb28324a76bba1d2203f2f11b126124.tar.gz lwn-2824a3669fb28324a76bba1d2203f2f11b126124.zip | |
mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis
Without having first read the git-shortlog man-page, the format
of .mailmap may not be immediately obvious. Add comments with pointers
to the man-page, along with other details.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202008080013.58EBD83@keescook
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to '.mailmap')
| -rw-r--r-- | .mailmap | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@ # This list is used by git-shortlog to fix a few botched name translations # in the git archive, either because the author's full name was messed up # and/or not always written the same way, making contributions from the -# same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed. +# same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed. Also allows for +# old email addresses to map to new email addresses. # +# For format details, see "MAPPING AUTHORS" in "man git-shortlog". +# +# Please keep this list dictionary sorted. +# +# This comment is parsed by git-shortlog: # repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ # - Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com> Adam Oldham <oldhamca@gmail.com> Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> |