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Date:   Mon, 5 Aug 2019 15:17:29 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:09:28AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 10:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > New one on me, thank you!  So I should have a line in .mailmap like
> > this?
> > 
> > Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <paul.mckenney@linaro.o
> > rg> <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> Well, you could, but there's no need.  As long as your email has 'Paul
> E. McKenney' as the text prefix, git-shortlog will do the correct
> aggregation without any need for a .mailmap entry.  However, if, say,
> your linaro email had been
> 
> Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.com>
> 
> Then you would need one because git-shortlog would think 'Paul
> McKenney' and 'Paul E. McKenney' were two different people.

Thank you for the explication!

							Thanx, Paul