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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2020-08-08 00:14:36 -0700
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-08-11 10:45:19 -0600
commit2824a3669fb28324a76bba1d2203f2f11b126124 (patch)
tree7c601100127e7236c33d2b9cc9f973ad9fee0e19 /.mailmap
parent502b675050a506fb966c6f273d2ce42e5d8ddb07 (diff)
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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>
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# 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>