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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri
From:   James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To:     Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
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        Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
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Date:   Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:23:38 -0700
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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.

James